- plural of neuron.
neurons
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Instead, it may be better to stop those toxic extracellular vesicles from entering healthy neurons.
From Science Daily • Jun. 30, 2026
In mice without Arc, toxic Tau remained trapped inside neurons, causing those already sick cells to die more quickly.
From Science Daily • Jun. 30, 2026
When this cleanup process was disrupted, neurons became more vulnerable to injury.
From Science Daily • Jun. 28, 2026
The results call into question a long-held assumption that AgRP neurons primarily track calorie intake regardless of where those calories come from.
From Science Daily • Jun. 26, 2026
Each of us has perhaps a hundred billion neurons, comparable to the number of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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