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词汇 nerve-cell
释义 nerve cell
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈnɜːv ˌsel/ us /ˈnɝːv ˌsel/
a cell that carries information between the brain and other parts of the body: 神经元
The retina is a thin layer of tissue that contains millions of nerve cells.
The disease is caused by a loss of nerve cells in one part of the brain.
Synonym
neuron
The typical brain holds billions of nerve cells.
A stroke cuts off oxygen to the brain, causing the death of vital nerve cells.
The axon of the cell may have many branches leading to many other nerve cells.
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The brain & nervous system
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When light wavelengths reach the eye, they act on special nerve cells called cones. 

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nerve cell
This damage may stimulate the nervecell to initiate repair processes which are utilised by the virus to replicate.
The method is based upon the fact that changing membrane potentials of dendrites and nervecell bodies generate extracellular current flow.
In neurobiology, un is the electrical potential, either of the nth nervecell or the nth node of the axon.
It is not known whether inflammatory changes are responsible for active nervecell death or whether they have protective functions during degeneration of dopamine neurons.
Whenever an action potential travels along a nerve fiber, or when the potential of a nervecell changes, an electromagnetic field will induce potential changes in surrounding neurons.
The nervecell can never recover and damage to it is irreversible.
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The brain cell, the nervecell, never heals.
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He made early observations associated with syphilis to tabes dorsalis (nerve fiber and nervecell degeneration).
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When chloride enters the nervecell, the cell membrane potential hyperpolarizes thereby inhibiting depolarization, or reduction in the firing rate of the post-synaptic nervecell.
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This gene codes for a protein named anosmin-1, which is responsible for migration of certain nervecell precursors during embryogenesis.
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Internal to this peripheral region is the gray, butterfly-shaped central region made up of nervecell bodies.
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The axon of a nervecell is, in general, responsible for transmitting information over a relatively long distance.
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To send chemical messages from one neuron to another, serotonin must bind to the receptor sites located on the neighboring nervecell.
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When sphingolipids are not made, an accumulation of toxic byproducts can also lead to nervecell death.
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Nervonic acid has been identified as important in the biosynthesis of nervecell myelin.
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