Types of Neurons Sensory neurons The cell bodies of sensory neurons ... damaging stimuli by causing the perception of pain. 1 Motor Neurons A motor neuron’s cell body is also often located either in ...

Medically reviewed by Huma Sheikh, MD Neurons are the cells in our body that are responsible for transmitting electrical ...

New research on nematodes reveals how glial cells maintain and monitor neuronal dendrites. Neurons may get all the glory, but they would be nothing without glial cells. While brain cells do the heavy ...

In a study published in the journal Current Biology, Johns Hopkins researchers discovered that individual neurons in the ...

the scientists then discovered that the sensory neuron endings expressed a neuropeptide called calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP). This neuropeptide plays a role in wound healing and acts via the ...

Reflex actions protect the body from further damage by allowing ... is a direct link in the spinal cord called an inter neuron (between the sensory neuron and a motor neuron) that causes a muscle ...

A friend asked for a column on shingles. Shingles is a reactivation of the varicella zoster virus that causes chickenpox, and ...

"We found that activating these neurons suppresses eating and lowers blood pressure, heart rate and whole-body metabolism ... oxytocin signaling in the vagal sensory neurons, the team was ...

Receptor in the skin detects a stimulus (the change in temperature). Sensory neuron sends electrical impulses to a relay neuron, which is located in the spinal cord of the CNS. Relay neurons ...