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After this productive period, signals within the skin instruct some follicles to enter a new phase known as catagen, or the regressing stage, causing hair follicles to shrink to a fraction of their original length.
Long periods of stress can release signals that shock follicles and force them into the resting phase prematurely.
When raiders were sighted, fire and smoke signals traveled between towers until reinforcements arrived.
As it slowly dies, it could leave its mother vulnerable to infection, and all the time, it may be emitting hormonal signals that disrupt her tissues.
In fact, one of the most famous fictional universal translators, the Babel fish from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", is not a machine at all but a small creature that translates the brain waves and nerve signals of sentient species through a form of telepathy.
And as levels of cortisol rise, electric signals in your hippocampus, the part of the brain associated with learning, memories, and stress control, deteriorate.
The signals meet halfway between the food and the base of the arm, letting it know to bend at that spot.
The hypothalamus sends signals that instruct your muscles to contract and causes a rise in body temperature.
The sheer size of the Universe guarantees that some of its random elements will fall into specific arrangements, and because we evolved to notice patterns and pick out signals among the noise, we are often tempted to find intentional meaning where there may not be any.
Amino acids contain the precursors to neurotransmitters, the chemical messengers that carry signals between neurons, affecting things like mood, sleep, attentiveness, and weight.
The frontal lobes are so sensitive to drops in glucose, in fact, that a change in mental function is one of the primary signals of nutrient deficiency.
Regional anesthesia blocks pain signals from a specific part of the body from getting to the brain.
These general anesthetics also seem to work by affecting electrical signals in the nervous system.
Normally, the brain's electrical signals are a chaotic chorus as different parts of the brain communicate with each other.
But as someone becomes anesthetized, those signals become calmer and more organized, suggesting that different parts of the brain aren't talking to each other anymore.
Negative charge builds up and acts like a log jam, keeping the neuron from transmitting electrical signals.
I looked at people in this database who were on two drugs, and I looked for signals similar, glucose-changing signals, for people taking two drugs, where each drug alone did not change glucose, but together I saw a strong signal."
Allan Adams: So that's my very good friend and collaborator, Scott Hughes, a theoretical physicist at MIT, who has been studying gravitational waves from black holes and the signals that they could impart on observatories like LIGO, for the past 23 years.
They send signals along your nerves to the sacral region in your spinal cord.
For example, an image of a smile signals joy to modern urban dwellers and aboriginal tribesmen alike.
The brain has to juggle a sea of thousands of electrical signals getting them all to their destination at precisely the right time.
The mental synthesis theory proposes that like a puppeteer pulling the strings, the prefrontal cortex neurons send electrical signals down these neural fibers to multiple ensembles in the posterior cortex.
In order for mental sythesis to work, signals would have to arrive at both neuronal ensembles at the same time.
If the signals travel down both fibers at the same rate, they'd arrive out of sync.
Myelin is an insulator and speeds up the electrical signals zipping down the nerve fiber.
And fibers with thicker layers of myelin can conduct signals 100 times faster or more than those with thinner ones.
She knows how different wavelengths of light stimulate three types of cone cells in the retina, and she knows how electrical signals travel down the optic nerve into the brain.
The grey matter processes information in the brain, directing signals and sensory stimuli to nerve cells, while white matter is mostly made up of fatty tissue and nerve fibers.
It prevents energy loss from electrical signals that the brain uses, moving them more efficiently along neural pathways.
Researchers have discovered that itch signals in their skin are transmitted via a subclass of the nerves that are associated with pain.
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