innervate
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They knew that vocal cord adduction is controlled by laryngeal motor neurons, so they began by tracing backward to find the neurons that innervate those motor neurons.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 7, 2024
Your sensory neurons innervate all the muscles in your body, and from how much your muscles are stretched, you have a very visual—without actually looking—image of where your limbs are.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 8, 2021
Some parts of the body might be more sensitive to NaV1.7 blockers than others, because neurons that innervate one organ might have different populations of ion channels than neurons in another.
From Nature ● Sep. 10, 2019
“As it goes down, the branches innervate the muscle, and then it goes down to the thumb over here,” he says.
From National Geographic ● Jul. 29, 2016
Sympathetic nervous system: applied to the nerves and ganglia of the alimentary canal and sonic other viscera which they innervate; = vagus; visceral nervous system.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
The researchers knew that muscles become less innervated, or infiltrated with nerves, as people and animals age.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2023
Four olfactory sensors, each innervated by a nerve that transmits information to the brain as an action potential, are shown in the diagram at the right.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Explain what can be inferred about the relative sizes of the areas of cortex that process signals from skin not densely innervated with sensory receptors versus skin that is densely innervated with sensory receptors.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Every skeletal muscle fiber in every skeletal muscle is innervated by a motor neuron at the NMJ.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
They are not only greater in extent and denser in population, but they are increasingly innervated by more and more rapid means of communication and excitement.
From In the Fourth Year Anticipations of a World Peace by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Using mouse antibodies that glom on to proteasomes, and other methods, the investigators found the proteasomes on the surface of neurons in the spinal cord, dorsal root ganglia, sciatic nerve and peripheral nerves innervating skin.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 12, 2024
Secretion of these hormones is stimulated by acetylcholine release from preganglionic sympathetic fibers innervating the adrenal medulla.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
The sequence of events that result in the contraction of an individual muscle fiber begins with a signal—the neurotransmitter, ACh—from the motor neuron innervating that fiber.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
There were swelling songs, innervating rain storms, and jiggly dances, but no onscreen kissing.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 2, 2012
The ganglia of the three post-oral segments, which bear the jaws, have fused in one compound ganglion innervating the mouth and jaws.
From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by Tyler, John Mason
