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 pulse strength was similar to that found in nerve cells.
  — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2018
• At the end, there are synapses where nerve cells join to other nerve cells, right?
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2024
• The nerve cord is a chain of nerve cell clusters called ganglia, linked by the long arms of neurites.
  — K. N. Smith, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2016
• 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
• In people with the mutation, the protein is a toxic form that kills nerve cells and damages the brain.
  — Amy Ellis Nutt, chicagotribune.com, 12 Dec. 2017
• 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
• Plaques are clusters of proteins called beta-amyloid that build up among nerve cells.
  — Jonel Aleccia, The Seattle Times, 4 Sep. 2017
• Plaques are clusters of beta-amyloid proteins that build up among nerve cells.
  — Jonel Aleccia, Kaiser Health News, 11 Sep. 2017
• 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
• These gut-brain signals had activated a cluster of nerve cells in the brainstem.
  — Esther Landhuis, Quanta Magazine, 14 June 2024
• Some jellyfish, like the deadly box jellyfish, use toxins that punch holes in skin, blood, and nerve cells alike.
  — National Geographic, 28 June 2018
• However, the billions of tiny nerve cells inside the skull are quite remote from the scalp, and only the faint echoes of neuronal chatter can be picked up by EEG.
  — Christof Koch, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2017
• The degenerative nervous system disease can affect nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 9 July 2024

Last Updated: 13 Sep 2024