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These cells, called glial cells, were once thought to be unimportant structural elements of the spinal cord that did nothing more than hold all the important things together, like the nerves.
Their DNA starts to synthesize new proteins, which spill out and interact with adjacent nerves, and they start releasing their neurotransmitters, and those neurotransmitters spill out and activate adjacent glial cells, and so on and so forth, until what we have is a positive feedback loop.
We take nerves that are noisy and active that should be quiet, and we put them to sleep with local anesthetics.
And most importantly, what we do is we use a rigorous, and often uncomfortable, process of physical therapy and occupational therapy to retrain the nerves in the nervous system to respond normally to the activities and sensory experiences that are part of everyday life.
Bear in mind, there are no nerves in the teeth.
There's a big pipe with the blood flowing through it, and around that pipe are the nerves drawing their nutrient supply from the blood.
These stories saturated my cells and nerves, and to be honest, I stopped sleeping for three years.
I felt something in this plexus of blood vessels and nerves, and there must be some muscles in there as well somewhere, I guess.
Well we need a neural interface, a way to connect to our nervous system or our thought processes so that it's intuitive, it's natural, like for you and I. Well the body works by starting a motor command in your brain, going down your spinal cord, out the nerves and to your periphery.
You touch yourself, there's a stimulus that comes up those very same nerves back up to your brain.
Those nerves can put out command signals.
Imagine, with somebody who's lost their whole arm, we still have four major nerves that go down your arm.
And we take the nerve away from your chest muscle and let these nerves grow into it.
First, we cut away the nerve to his own muscle, then we took the arm nerves and just kind of had them shift down onto his chest and closed him up.
And after about three months, the nerves grew in a little bit and we could get a twitch.
And after six months, the nerves grew in well, and you could see strong contractions.
And the nerves themselves are the ones who are receiving input.
Somehow in tickling our eardrum that transmits energy down our hearing bones, which get converted to a fluid impulse inside the cochlea and then somehow converted into an electrical signal in our auditory nerves that somehow wind up in our brains as a perception of a song or a beautiful piece of music.
And the strength, extensibility and toughness of spider silks combined with the fact that silks do not elicit an immune response, have attracted a lot of interest in the use of spider silks in biomedical applications, for example, as a component of artificial tendons, for serving as guides to regrow nerves, and for scaffolds for tissue growth.
Nerves are yellow, arteries are red, veins are blue.
And what I'm talking about are nerves.
Nerves, if they are injured, can cause paralysis, can cause pain.
But you know what, these little nerves are so small, in the context of prostate cancer, that they are actually never seen.
We're trying to preserve nerves; we can't see where they are.
So I said, wouldn't it be great if we could find a way to see nerves with fluorescence?
And we eventually discovered molecules that were specifically labeling nerves.
And when we made a solution of this, tagged with the fluorescence and injected in the body of a mouse, their nerves literally glowed.
We're focused on adding drugs, adding growth factors, killing nerves that are causing problems and not the surrounding tissue.
I thought if I skipped it might help my nerves, but I'm actually having a paradoxical reaction to that, so that was a bad idea.
I felt a pang of nerves.
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