How to Use nerve cell in a Sentence

nerve cell

noun
  • It is caused by damage to nerve cells in parts of the brain.
    — Jack Moore, ABC News, 13 Nov. 2025
  • The brain sends signals to the gut, which is teeming with nerve cells.
    — Eleanor Morgan, refinery29.com, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Over time, the condition gets worse as the brain's nerve cells die.
    — Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
  • At the end, there are synapses where nerve cells join to other nerve cells, right?
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 23 May 2024
  • The disorder destroys the nerve cells of the brain and spine.
    — Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 7 Dec. 2019
  • On the left side, however, the number of nerve cells did not rise as much.
    — Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 27 Dec. 2025
  • The rash was much milder in mice bred with defective itch-sensing nerve cells.
    — ABC News, 27 June 2026
  • In a healthy brain, tau helps to stabilize the structure of nerve cells.
    — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Alzheimer's is a type of brain disease caused by damage to nerve cells, or neurons.
    — Beth Warren, The Tennessean, 1 Dec. 2024
  • The rare cancer, which forms in certain nerves cells of infants, was found in her heart.
    — Charlotte Carroll, SI.com, 12 June 2018
  • When open, the nerve cell stimulates other cells.
    — Jacob A Tennessen, The Conversation, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The nerve cord is a chain of nerve cell clusters called ganglia, linked by the long arms of neurites.
    — K. N. Smith, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2016
  • Learning in the brain The human brain is made up of billions of nerve cells.
    — Takaki Komiyama, The Conversation, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Is there a better way for scientists to shine a light on nerve cells throughout the body?
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Nov. 2023
  • After serotonin does its job in the brain, nerve cells reabsorb it.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Plaques are clusters of beta-amyloid proteins that build up among nerve cells.
    — Jonel Aleccia, Kaiser Health News, 11 Sep. 2017
  • That voltage change gets passed to nerve cells, which send the information to the brain.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Plaques are clusters of proteins called beta-amyloid that build up among nerve cells.
    — Jonel Aleccia, The Seattle Times, 4 Sep. 2017
  • Body of knowledge The longest cell in the human body is the neuron or nerve cell.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2025
  • As brains get bigger, each nerve cell must stay connected with more and more other neurons.
    — Douglas Fox, Discover Magazine, 20 Aug. 2018
  • This leads to aberrant firing of the brain’s nerve cells and seizure activity.
    — Jenny Wilkerson, chicagotribune.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • For the first time, scientists have built a detailed atlas of a zebrafish’s nerve cells.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The scene looks like a microscopic photograph of a nerve cell.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 30 July 2021
  • The virus targets the nerve cells in the spinal cord, inhibiting the body’s control over its muscles.
    — Alexander B. Joy, The Atlantic, 28 July 2019
  • That led to nerve cells sometimes ending up in the wrong place and layers that were disorganized.
    — Linda Carroll, NBC News, 2 July 2019
  • The disease progressively kills nerve cells until the infant can no longer crawl or even turn over.
    — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 15 Apr. 2019
  • In people with the mutation, the protein is a toxic form that kills nerve cells and damages the brain.
    — Amy Ellis Nutt, chicagotribune.com, 12 Dec. 2017
  • These gut-brain signals had activated a cluster of nerve cells in the brainstem.
    — Esther Landhuis, Quanta Magazine, 14 June 2024
  • The repeats lead to an abnormal form of Huntingtin, which poisons nerve cells in the brain.
    — Denise Grady, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
  • All of this is backed up by comprehensive support for nerve cell integrity and brain cell health over the long-term.
    — Dallas News, 24 Jan. 2023

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