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As Johns Hopkins Medicine explains, the ENS is made up of two thin layers of more than 100 million nerve cells lining your gastrointestinal tract from your esophagus to your rectum.
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His is the first study to show that gene-editing technology can reach the latent virus in a nerve cell, and the first to use that technology to damage some of the virus’ DNA.
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Of particular concern are benign Schwann cell tumors called acoustic neuromas, which affect nerve cells connecting the inner ear with structures inside the brain.
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Astrocytes were once thought to be merely support cells that helped provide a good environment for nerve cells.
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Working out also causes new nerve cells to be born in the hippocampus—the battle zone for Alzheimer’s.
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The study involved 110 people with relapsing multiple sclerosis, a condition in which cells in the immune system start to inexplicably attack the critical covering that protects nerve cells in the spinal cord, brain and eye.
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For example, vitamin E has been shown to reduce inflammation in the brain and the accumulation of amyloid plaques on nerve cells in the brain (a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease).
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Modern arthropods begin developing with a single bundle of nerve cells above their gut.
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First Known Use of nerve cell
1840
NERVE CELL Defined for Kids
nerve cell
Definition of nerve cell for Students
: a cell of the nervous system with fibers that carry nerve impulses
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