How to Use nerve cell in a Sentence

nerve cell

noun

• The disorder destroys the nerve cells of the brain and spine.
  — Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 7 Dec. 2019
• The brain sends signals to the gut, which is teeming with nerve cells.
  — Eleanor Morgan, refinery29.com, 12 Apr. 2023
• The rare cancer, which forms in certain nerves cells of infants, was found in her heart.
  — Charlotte Carroll, SI.com, 12 June 2018
• The virus targets the nerve cells in the spinal cord, inhibiting the body’s control over its muscles.
  — Alexander B. Joy, The Atlantic, 28 July 2019
• Is there a better way for scientists to shine a light on nerve cells throughout the body?
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Nov. 2023
• The repeats lead to an abnormal form of Huntingtin, which poisons nerve cells in the brain.
  — Denise Grady, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
• Wold has Hirschsprung’s disease, a birth defect in which the infant is missing some nerve cells in a part of the bowel.
  — Washington Post, 29 July 2019
• The disease afflicts about 5,000 patients in the United States and causes rapid nerve cell loss in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2019
• Anything that disrupts the nerve cells (neurons) in your brain can cause seizures, Dr. Kaufman says.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 2 Oct. 2018
• Huntington’s, which Triplet hopes to treat, results in the progressive breakdown of nerve cells in the brain.
  — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Dec. 2019
• This leads to aberrant firing of the brain’s nerve cells and seizure activity.
  — Jenny Wilkerson, chicagotribune.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• Working out also causes new nerve cells to be born in the hippocampus—the battle zone for Alzheimer’s.
  — Erika Fry, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2018
• The scene looks like a microscopic photograph of a nerve cell.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 30 July 2021
• That’s because CIs today come with only around 20 electrodes, and each connects to a single nerve cell in the cochlea.
  — Annalee Newitz, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
• That led to nerve cells sometimes ending up in the wrong place and layers that were disorganized.
  — Linda Carroll, NBC News, 2 July 2019
• Take the spinal cord, a foot-and-a-half-long flexible tube of nervous tissue inside the backbone with about a billion nerve cells.
  — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 8 May 2018
• All of this is backed up by comprehensive support for nerve cell integrity and brain cell health over the long-term.
  — Dallas News, 24 Jan. 2023
• Children with the genetic mutation, which kills nerve cells in the spine, lose their ability to walk, eat and breathe.
  — Lauren Dunn, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2019
• This could pave the way to new treatments that might be able to make room for the body to rebuild its nerve cells for smell by directly curbing the immune response.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 8 Aug. 2023
• The disease progressively kills nerve cells until the infant can no longer crawl or even turn over.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 15 Apr. 2019
• Some jellyfish, like the deadly box jellyfish, use toxins that punch holes in skin, blood, and nerve cells alike.
  — National Geographic, 28 June 2018
• As brains get bigger, each nerve cell must stay connected with more and more other neurons.
  — Douglas Fox, Discover Magazine, 20 Aug. 2018
• 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.
  — Becky Little, Smithsonian, 23 Mar. 2018
• The virus goes dormant in the nerve cells only to be reactivated years later.
  — Mari A. Schaefer, Philly.com, 29 June 2018
• And, as hoped for, when given to cultured nerve cells, the chemicals reduced the levels of the defective protein, not the normal one.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 1 Nov. 2019
• In the case of Dravet, that means that electrical signaling between nerve cells gets thrown out of whack, leading to the kinds of neuronal shock waves that trigger seizures.
  — Elie Dolgin, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2023
• For a visual area roughly one-quarter the size of a full moon, there are only about 10 nerve cells connecting the retina to the visual cortex.
  — Wired, 25 Aug. 2019
• Somehow the nerve cells, or neurons, in the inflamed paw were responding to morphine, and something about the inflammation gave the painkiller its zing.
  — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 11 May 2018
• Many of the differences in the genomes of nerve cells are due to the presence of mobile genetic elements called retrotransposons.
  — Robert Martone, Scientific American, 10 July 2018
• The disease causes protein deposits, called Lewy bodies, to develop in nerve cells in the parts of the brain tasked with thought, memory and movement.
  — Isabella Volmert, Dallas News, 19 July 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024