Dendrites Sentence Examples

A neuron is composed of a central cell body with branches, called dendrites.

We are now going to add more sections representing the two dendrites.

Wrap these short pieces around longer pipe cleaners to make dendrites.

Nerve cells have specialized extensions called dendrites and axons.

Like all neurones, the sensory neuron has a cell body, an axon, dendrites and axon terminals.

Chronic hypoxaemia appears to be a major cause of maldevelopment of the cortical neuron dendrites and axonal bed.

This pattern of the motorneuron dendrites is a neural map, which represents centrally the distribution of body wall muscles in the periphery.

As dendrites form the predominant elements in neurons, so dendritic spines form the dominant component of many types of dendritic trees.

These nerve impulses then stimulate the end of an axon to release chemicals called neurotransmitters that spread out and communicate with the dendrites of neighboring nerve cells.

The nerve cells themselves, with long branches (dendrites) that receive signals from other nerve cells, make up the gray matter that lies in a butterfly-shaped region in the center of the spinal cord.

These can be shorter than your axon and you can twist more pipe cleaners to make more dendrites.

In untreated PKU patients, abnormally high phenylalanine levels in the blood and brain can produce nerve cells with deformed axons and dendrites and cause imperfections in the myelin sheath referred to as hypomyelination and demylenation.

The neuron is described as having a cell body or perikaryon from which the cell branches - dendrites and axon - extend, and it is this perikaryon which, as its name implies, muscle produces lactic acids during activity, it has been suggested that acids are among the "fatigue substances" with which muscle poisons itself when deprived of circulating blood.