While brain cells do the heavy lifting in the nervous system, it's the glia that provide nutrients, clean up waste, and protect neurons from harm. A map of deadly infectious diseases known to ...

The nervous system is the body’s internal communication system. It has two parts – the central nervous system (CNS) and the peripheral nervous system (PNS). The CNS includes the brain and spinal cord, ...

Diseases of the nervous system refer to disorders that affect any part of the central nervous system (brain, spinal cord or cranial nerves) or peripheral nervous system. Rabah et al. elegantly ...

The nervous system consists of the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) and the peripheral nervous system (motor nerves, sensory nerves, cranial and spinal nerves, autonomic ganglia ...

Peripheral nerves are nerves located outside the brain and spinal cord. They relay information between the central nervous system (CNS) and all other parts of the body. The brain and spinal cord ...

The human nervous system is defined as two parts. They are the central nervous system (CNS) and the peripheral nervous system (PNS). The CNS is located in the skull and vertebral canal of the spine.

Parasitic infections can invade practically any part of the body. Brain parasites, those that infect the central nervous system which includes the brain, are potentially the most damaging and the most ...

This indicates that the nervous system sets up a spatial, or topographical, map of each sucker. Octopuses can move and change the shape of their suckers independently. The suckers are also packed ...

The fine control these almost-alien animals have over each of their eight arms is at least partially down to the segmentation of the nervous system circuitry that governs ... creating a sort of ...

She mapped our solar system's "alternate fate" had it housed an extra planet between Mars and Jupiter instead of the existing asteroid belt. They developed a 3D model that simulates how the solar ...

1Sanford Research, Cancer Biology and Immunotherapies Group, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. 2Sanford School of Medicine, Health Sciences Center, University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.