It may refer to the coupling of adjacent (touching) nerve fibers caused by the exchange of ions between the cells, or it may refer to coupling of nerve fibers as a result of local electric fields.

And these four types of information your optic nerve has about a million fibers in it, and 900,000 of those fibers send these four types of information.

In troubled times, during the dictatorship of Mussolini, Rita had secretly studied nerve fibers in a makeshift lab hidden in her home.

Epidermal nerve fiber density testing (ENFD) is a more recently developed neuropathology test in which a punch skin biopsy is taken to identify small fiber neuropathies by analyzing the nerve fibers of the skin.

In fact, these adrenal medullary cells are modified postganglionic neurons, and preganglionic autonomic nerve fibers lead to them directly from the central nervous system.

The facial nerve is the seventh cranial nerve, or simply cranial nerve VII.

Synthetic fibers are best in the form of thermofused (where fibers cross) batting.

The trochlear nerve (the fourth cranial nerve) is a motor nerve (a somatic efferent nerve) that innervates a single muscle the superior oblique muscle of the eye.

The vestibulocochlear nerve (auditory vestibular nerve), known as the eighth cranial nerve, transmits sound and equilibrium (balance) information from the inner ear to the brain.

This perpetual creation of periodontal ligament leads to the formation of groups of fibers in different orientations, such as horizontal and oblique fibers.

It is not as durable as other fibers, and so is usually used as a blend with other fibers such as cotton or wool.

The sixth nerve, the abducens nerve, which innervates the lateral rectus muscle of the eye (moves the eye laterally), is also commonly affected but fourth nerve, the trochlear nerve, (innervates the superior oblique muscle, which moves the eye downward) involvement is unusual.

But Estonia kept its nerve.

Properties Ramie is one of the strongest natural fibers.

It was a nerve wracking experience.

Herbert Spencer Gasser (July 5, 1888 May 11, 1963) was an American physiologist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1944 for his work with action potentials in nerve fibers while on the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis, awarded jointly with Joseph Erlanger.

Results may indicate lesion to the spinal cord nerve root, or intervertebral disc herniation pressing on the spinal nerve roots.

And yes, it's a little nerve wracking.

Description Synthetic fibers are made from synthesized polymers or small molecules.

Fibers for the extremities (limbs) pass 100 to the opposite side.

The International Foundation for Optic Nerve Diseases (IFOND) sponsors research and information on a variety of optic nerve disorders and may provide general direction.

Nerve growth factor (NGF) is a small secreted protein that is important for the growth, maintenance, and survival of certain target neurons (nerve cells).

Differing chemical compounds will be used to produce different types of fibers.

It takes nerve and energy to live like that.

Some other fibers that originate from the anterior median fissure above the decussation of the pyramids and run laterally across the surface of the pons are known as the anterior external arcuate fibers.

Non polymer materials can also be used as the matrix for carbon fibers.

It can also cause nerve damage, eventually leading to paralysis.

Compared to the body of an oyster, for example, chimpanzees and humans are at least 99 identical bone for bone, muscle for muscle, nerve for nerve, organ for organ.

Fortunately, Gandhi held her nerve and began to prepare for war.

Once within a muscle or nerve cell, the virus undergoes replication.

And if we think of that let me put the picture up the fibers represent vulnerability.

There, partial decussation occurs, and about 53 of the fibers cross to form the optic tracts.

These fibroblasts secrete collagen, which interacts with fibers on the surfaces of adjacent bone and cementum.

Many nerve, respiratory and muscle diseases might also be caused by prions.

How i hate that day! its nerve wrecking if u ask me.

The silence of Arab governments in particular is hitting a raw nerve.

This condition leads to brain inflammation and the death of nerve cells.

Distal axonopathy occurs most severely in the longest nerve in the horse.

Treatments included peripheral nerve stimulation, electrical muscle stimulation and electric shock therapy.

The tumor cells always stay on the outside of the nerve, but the tumor itself may either push the nerve aside and or up against a bony structure (thereby possibly causing damage).

In 2008, Mexico s government decided to attack the drug cartels operational nerve centers.

The strangest thing about the Duma election was that Putin lost his nerve.

After all, Egypt is the heart, brain, and nerve center of the Arab world.

So all of those colored lines correspond to bunches of axons, the fibers that join cell bodies to synapses.

An example of successful waste management is the reprocessing of PET bottles (made of polyethylene terephthalate) into polyester fibers.