release of insulin. Action potentials in neurons are also known as "nerve impulses" or "spikes", and the temporal sequence of action potentials generated...

nerve cells, which receive and transmit impulses, and neuroglia, also known as glial cells or glia, which assist the propagation of the nerve impulse...

units of the peripheral nervous system. A nerve provides a common pathway for the electrochemical nerve impulses called action potentials that are transmitted...

In neuroscience, nerve conduction velocity (CV) is the speed at which an electrochemical impulse propagates down a neural pathway. Conduction velocities...

cochlear nerve (CVIII). This damage may affect the initiation of the nerve impulse in the cochlear nerve or the transmission of the nerve impulse along the...

to effector organs during a reflex action. The pathway taken by the nerve impulse to accomplish a reflex action is called the reflex arc. When a reflex...

gets as many inhibitory as excitatory impulses, the inhibition cancels out the excitation and the nerve impulse will stop there. Action potential generation...

Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is a medical treatment that involves delivering electrical impulses to the vagus nerve. It is used as an add-on treatment...

relating to the sense of smell. The afferent nerve fibers of the olfactory receptor neurons transmit nerve impulses about odors to the central nervous system...

Increased temperature slows nerve conduction, but the exact mechanism remains unknown. With an increased body temperature, nerve impulses are either blocked or...

interconnections of neurons and their release of neurotransmitters in response to nerve impulses. Neurons connect to form neural pathways, neural circuits, and elaborate...

physiological processes, such as nutrient uptake, hormone secretion, and nerve impulse transmission. For example, the sodium-potassium pump uses ATP to pump...

nerves. Stimuli cause nerve impulses in the receptors and alter the potentials, which is known as sensory transduction. Afferent nerve fibers leave the sensory...

an efferent nerve. The opposite direction of neural activity is afferent conduction, which carries impulses by way of the afferent nerve fibers of sensory...

support many processes in living cells, such as muscle contraction, nerve impulse propagation, and chemical synthesis. Found in all known forms of life...

inside. In nerve cells, the sudden flow of sodium ions into the cell through voltage-gated sodium channels enables transmission of a nerve impulse in a process...

he joined Alan Hodgkin to study nerve impulses. Their eventual discovery of the basis for propagation of nerve impulses (called an action potential) earned...

network of neurons that transmit signals by propagating nerve impulses. The propagation of this impulse from one neuron to another is typically controlled...

degradation.[citation needed] In addition to increasing the speed of the nerve impulse, the myelin sheath helps in reducing energy expenditure over the axon...

which then processes that image within the retina and sends nerve impulses along the optic nerve to the visual cortex to create visual perception. The retina...

orally active in animals. BPAP is a highly potent MAE and enhances the nerve impulse propagation-mediated release of serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine...

neuromuscular function, a nerve impulse is carried down the axon (the long projection of a nerve cell) from the spinal cord. At the nerve ending in the neuromuscular...

When the motor nerve is stimulated there is a delay of only 0.5 to 0.8 msec between the arrival of the nerve impulse in the motor nerve terminals and the...

homozygous Lp/Lp horses and so compromises the basic chemical reaction for nerve impulse transmission. "nyctalopia". Dictionary.com Unabridged (Online). n.d...

neurotransmitters released by neurons per electrical impulse. MAEs have been shown to significantly enhance nerve impulse-mediated dopamine release in the striatum...

Calcium % 1.2 0.5 1.8 Formation of bones and teeth Blood coagulation Nerve impulse transmission Muscle contraction Cell signaling Deficiency Nutritional...

electrical activity is transmitted in the sciatic nerve of frogs in July 1934. He found that a nerve impulse arriving at a cold or compression block, can decrease...

need other minerals, such as magnesium, potassium, and sodium, for nerve impulse transmission, muscle contraction, and cell signaling. Many minerals...

(gamma-aminobutyric acid) neurotransmitter, which inhibits some neurons to reduce nerve impulse transmission. Purkinje cells efficiently control and coordinate the...

nervous system and peripheral sense organs. An adrenergic nerve impulse is triggered when one nerve fires repeatedly or when several nerves fire simultaneously...