He was forty-nine years old. Leprosy -- also called Hansen's disease is a bacterial disease that causes skin wounds and nerve damage.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

And I will briefly touch upon these wonderful systems that are able to deliver information into the brain and nerve system.

我会简要提及这些能够向大脑和神经系统,递信息的美妙系统。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

And that concept is really to either write information into the brain and the nerve system or read information out of the brain and the nerve system.

这一概念实际上是指,向大脑或者神经系统输入信息,或者读出大脑和神经系统以外的信息。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

They used light-sensitive molecules to turn on and off nerve cells in the deep brain structure of mice.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

The cells that take an electrical signal, which is coming down your nerve and convert it into a muscle contraction work this way, so 'neuro' nerve, muscle junctions act based on ligand-gated ion channels.

依靠相同的工作原理,细胞将来自于神经的,电信号传递到细胞收缩肌中,所以神经和肌肉关节运动,都基于配体门控离子通道

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Research published mainly in nineteen seventy-three had found proteins on the surfaces of nerve cells in the brain.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

I don't actually know exactly what it would take, but you just cut off and snip the relevant nerve endings so that we're no longer able to engage in that higher order thinking.

我不知道手术到底怎样做，但只要切除相关的神经末梢,让我们无法进行,更高层次的思维。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

MS symptoms can depend on where the nerve scars are in the body's central nervous system.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

As he writes, The Astonishing Hypothesis is that: You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules.

正如他在其著作《惊人的假说》中写到,你,你的喜悦,悲伤,回忆,抱负,你对人格同一性的感知,你的自由意志,事实上,这一切都不过,是大量神经细胞集,与其缔合分子的生理反应而已

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Still,broken bones should be treated quickly because they can restrict blood flow or cause nerve damage.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

Electric signals start in nerve cells and travel along these fibers to and from the brain.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

Stem cells have the ability to grow other cells, such as heart, nerve or brain cells.

VOA: special.2010.06.15

But experts believe the electrical current might help activate nerve cells that are not working correctly.

VOA: special.2009.02.03

Over time,high blood sugar can lead to blindness, kidney failure, heart disease and nerve damage.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

The system contains millions of nerve cells joined together by long thin fibers, like wires.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

The Epilepsy Foundation says people using Vagus Nerve Stimulation still must take anti-seizure medicines.

VOA: special.2010.10.26

In people with MS, when nerve signals reach a damaged area, some of the signals are blocked or delayed from traveling to or from the brain.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

Evidence shows that extended periods of cortisol in the body weakens bones, damages nerve cells in the brain and weakens the body's defense system against disease.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

Her brain had sticky structures and nerve cells that appeared to be mixed together.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

About ten years ago, a device called the Vagus Nerve Stimulator was developed.

VOA: special.2010.10.26

When the nerve is made active, it starts pain linked to cluster headaches.

VOA: special.2010.03.30

The disease causes nerve problems in the hands and feet and muscle weakness.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

It swells, or grows larger, and loses its connection with the nerve fibers.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

The nerve starts a process that makes one eye watery and red.

VOA: special.2010.03.30

These problems were more common among males, those with injured nerve tissue in the brain and those who had been given oxygen supplies for days as a baby.

VOA: special.2010.11.30

Calcium is needed for nerve and muscle cells to work normally.

VOA: special.2009.04.21

Nerve cells use electrical particles to communicate with each other.

VOA: special.2010.10.26

"Great pirates of Penzance!" says I, "of all the nerve."

VOA: special.2011.01.22

They produce reactions in the nerve cells in the brain.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

Hardened, scar tissue then forms over the nerve fibers.

VOA: special.2009.01.06