nerve cell
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In Parkinson's disease, this protein sticks together into toxic clumps that cause nerve cell death and leads to patients suffering from symptoms such as tremors, difficulties moving and muscle stiffness.
From Science Daily • Oct. 8, 2025
When the electrical signal reaches the end of one nerve cell it is converted into a biochemical signal, in the form of calcium.
From Science Daily • Nov. 18, 2024
These channels are like molecular machines that sense electrical signals and then open to allow calcium to flow into the nerve cell.
From Science Daily • Nov. 18, 2024
The injured organoids showed some of the same features seen in TBI patients, including nerve cell death and pathological changes in tau proteins, as well as in a protein called TDP-43.
From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2024
They can specify how a nerve cell communicates with another nerve cell and thus become the arbiters of normal cognition and neural development.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
