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Anatomy of the Cochlear Nerve
To understand the structure of the cochlear nerve ... The cochlea houses the cell bodies of the cochlear nerve within a ...
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The structure and function of the nervous system
A bundle of neurones is called a nerve. There are three main types of ... Receptors are groups of specialised cells. They detect a change in the environment (stimulus) and stimulate electrical ...
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Brain tumor cells rapidly integrate into brain-wide neuronal circuits, new mapping method shows
The tumor cells of highly aggressive glioblastomas grow into the brain like a mycelium. This invasion is promoted by the nerve cells of the brain itself as they form cell-cell contacts with the ...
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Movement of molecules across the cell membrane
This diagram shows molecules moving from area ... sodium out of the cells and potassium into the cells. This helps nerve cells to transmit nerve impulses. Your brain contains around 85 billion ...
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Optic nerve head structure in glaucoma: Astrocytes as mediators of axonal damage
The hypothesis that it disrupts the function of retinal ganglion cell axons by increasing mechanical forces on the lamina cribrosa of the optic nerve head ... of the structure of the lamina ...