How to Use neuron in a Sentence

neuron

noun
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  • As a result, neurons near the site of the stroke get damaged.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2023
  • In this case, the antibodies sought out tau, a protein that sits in the neurons of the brain.
    — Shannon McDonagh, Newsweek, 10 July 2024
  • To fuel all of its neurons, the brain depends on oxygen.
    — Celia Ford, WIRED, 18 July 2023
  • And many of the traffic cop molecules that direct the growth of neurons in these worms do the same in humans.
    — R. Douglas Fields, Quanta Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Wear and Tear The spine is a 30-level tower of neurons encased in a cylinder of bone.
    — Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2024
  • Their brains are found to have about 257 billion neurons, around three times more than a human brain.
    — Hazra Khatoon, Discover Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Once the sound enters the brain, neurons shoot up across different parts to decode each lyric, melody and rhythm.
    — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
  • How do neurons reach out and grab other neurons and send signals to them?
    — David Marchese David Marchese Photograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Battered and scarred blood vessels that are no longer able to support neurons.
    — Dave Philipps, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Like the jellies, the membranes of our neurons need just the right amount of fluidity to function.
    — science.org, 3 July 2024
  • Glioma originates in glial cells that surround and support neurons in the brain, per the website.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Without these neurons, the mice couldn’t find cookies hidden in their cages.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
  • Every minute during a stroke, neurons in the brain die because of a lack of blood, Effendi said.
    — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
  • But the human brain has about 16 billion neurons in the cortex alone, not to mention billions more glial cells.
    — WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Futrell says that neurons are like telephone poles sending signals from your brain to other parts of your body.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Imagine that your brain is the football stadium, and each of the neurons is a person in that stadium.
    — Marla Broadfoot, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 May 2023
  • How neurons might inhibit this effect were among his ideas that led to new insights at the workshop.
    — John McCarthy, IEEE Spectrum, 6 May 2023
  • Enlarge Westend61 Sleep is a semiconscious state, but there are neurons firing in the brain even when all seems quiet.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 9 May 2023
  • Playing music is thought to build neuron connections in the brain and requires the brain to exercise.
    — Robin Soslow, Chron, 13 May 2023
  • In the future, Son said, ASI models will work together like neurons in a human brain.
    — Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 21 June 2024
  • That allows researchers to detect the neuron-firing patterns in his brain that give rise to each movement.
    — Cade Metz, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Inside, there are more than 100 million neurons that allow the gut to work autonomously.
    — Beatrice Zocchi, Vogue, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Adderall is thought to work by blocking this leaky protein, preventing dopamine from spewing out of the neuron through the dopamine transporter.
    — Habibeh Khoshbouei, Fortune Well, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Due to a neuron’s ability to learn over time, these cells could make computers even better.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 14 Oct. 2022
  • As presented by the Australian Brain Alliance, our brains focus on neuron connections in the first months of our lives.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 5 May 2023
  • To study the effectiveness of the neuron in restoring the ability to walk and cure paralysis, the researchers began with mice.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 12 Nov. 2022
  • Groups of neurons in the neocortex encode these memories of objects and past events.
    — Andrey Vyshedskiy, The Conversation, 23 Feb. 2023
  • This reconfiguration prompts the neurons to send signals to the odor-processing parts of the brain.
    — Wynne Parry, Quanta Magazine, 1 May 2023
  • In extreme cases, heat can affect the function of brain neurons, according to Mayo Clinic neurologist Narayan Kissoon.
    — Karla Marie Sanford, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
  • When the researchers pumped a nutritious fluid that produces feelings of fullness into the animals’ small intestines, mostly NTS neurons switched on.
    — Mitch Leslie, science.org, 10 July 2024

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