The study is particularly significant because it could help explain the association between these plastic-derived chemicals and neurological disorders.

The nervous system is the body’s direct communication system. It’s made up of the body’s many nerve cells. These cells work together in a network that sends and receives signals from one ...

This study explores the use of electrical stunning as a viable alternative to anesthetic overdose and rapid cooling for euthanizing zebrafish larvae, potentially improving the welfare of over 5 ...

The nervous system is a complex network of neurons and cells that carry messages to and from the brain and spinal cord to various parts of the body. New insights into what causes the painful and ...

Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and ShanghaiTech University have developed an innovative method for growing brain tumors of individual patients in the laboratory that mimic ...

the cells of our nervous system. Scientists are only beginning to uncover how these molecules can trigger changes in our bodies’ organs and systems, but some evidence links forever chemicals to ...

Their venom is considered to be among the most deadly in the world, containing toxins that attack the heart, nervous system, and skin cells. It is so overpoweringly painful, human victims have ...

Together, the scientists discovered that while Batten disease ravages nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, it also kills neurons that are part of the GI tract's enteric nervous system.

Neurons may get all the glory, but they would be nothing without glial cells. While brain cells do the heavy lifting in the ...

It turns out this migration is orchestrated by the nervous system. During fasting, neurons in the gut connected to the brain release chemical signals that bind to immune cells, telling them to ...

IL-1R1 is like a doorbell on cells that gets rung when there's an ... the functional roles of this receptor in the central nervous system (CNS). Previous studies conducted by the FAU Quan ...