How To Use Excitatory In A Sentence
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That said, it is part of the joy of popular science writing that it can lead one to the point of comprehending sentences such as: "These findings with MK-801 pretreatment suggested that LTP and/or LTD of the excitatory synapses received by the neurons of the VTA was induced in rats as a result of taking cocaine.
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The results showed that as a neurotransmitter TRH has facilitatory effect on excitatory synaptic transmission in spinal cord.
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Neurosteroids can therefore alter neuronal excitability very rapidly by binding to receptors for inhibitory or excitatory neurotransmitters at the cell membrane.
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The monosynaptic connection is excitatory, but, because the Martinotti cell makes GABAergic synapses onto its targets, the disynaptic connection is inhibitory.
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Thus: a given inhibitory tetanus exerted on a certain set of motoneurones fails to prevent their excitation in response to strong stimulation of a given afferent nerve; but when the stimulation of the excitatory afferent is weaker the given standard inhibitory tetanus does prevent the response of the motor neurones to the excitatory stimulation.
Sir Charles Sherrington - Nobel Lecture
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This local depolarization is known as an excitatory synaptic potential, and its amplitude is determined by the number of vesicles released from the presynaptic cell.
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The responsible nerves appear to include both excitatory cholinergic fibers and inhibitory fibers that probably release nitric oxide.
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The majority of brain cells are called excitatory because they ramp up the action of target cells.
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The cells that responded to nerve stimulation were most likely principal neurons and not interneurons, because fast excitatory postsynaptic potentials were recorded in these cells.
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T.umoto, T. Difference in binocularity and ocular dominance plasticity between GABAergic and excitatory cortical neurons.
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The monosynaptic connection is excitatory, but, because the Martinotti cell makes GABAergic synapses onto its targets, the disynaptic connection is inhibitory.
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When the synapses of these inhibitory neurons are blocked by drugs (such as of picrotoxin or penicillin), the excitatory network can sustain a chain reaction leading to an epileptiform discharge.
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If an excitatory input, associated with hypoxia, was received by the respiratory motor centers in the brainstem, an increase in respiratory activity should have resulted.
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In the heart, arrhythmias arise due to metabolic deficiencies; these are interpreted as originating directly from the excitatory muscle tissue sensitive to acidosis.
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Individual muscle fibers may be innervated by one or both of the excitatory neurons, and generally receive inhibitory input as well.
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In the esophagus, most investigators have observed excitatory effects in the form of an increased incidence of nonpropulsive contractions or an increased contraction force.
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Norepinephrine and serotonin may be excitatory or inhibitory, but they are functionally inhibitory on pain transmission; glutamate is the other important excitatory neurotransmitter.
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The cells that responded to nerve stimulation were most likely principal neurons and not interneurons, because fast excitatory postsynaptic potentials were recorded in these cells.
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Glutamate accelerates brain activity—it is excitatory.
The Chemistry of Calm
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Chronic stress raises the level of the excitatory hormones, including norepinephrine and cortisol, which can wear your body down and lead to disease.
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ASD symptoms may be a reflection of an excitatory-inhibitory imbalance, but no proof of any biological overarousal when the symptoms are observed.
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In order to bring normal balance between excitatory and inhibitory postsynaptic potential, antiseizure drugs may use one or more of the following mechanisms.
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Those that make you feel energized, excited, and stimulated, and help you focus, learn, and remember, are called excitatory neurotransmitters.
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Second, it produced an excess of glutamate, the primary excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain, leading to a persistent state of overexcitation or overarousal.
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The NMDA receptor is activated by glutamate, the primary excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain.
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Excitatory neurotransmitters transfer an impulse to the next cell.
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In the brain, 80% of manganese is found in the enzyme glutamine synthetase, which inactivates the excitatory amino acid glutamate to glutamine.
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This tonic contraction is mostly myogenic, due to special properties of this smooth muscle, but it is modified by excitatory and inhibitory nerves.
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Like the skin comparison neurons in the spinal cord, the center may be excitatory and the surround inhibitory.
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The same excitatory process also appears to temporarily reverse long-term habituation.
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Progesterone administration attenuates excitatory amino acid responses of cerebellar Purkinje cells.
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However, in other cases, it may be associated with a biochemical and/or physiological defect in the brain of the patient with epilepsy presumably due to an imbalance of excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters.
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The parasympathetic nervous system is excitatory and results in the contraction of smooth muscle, whereas the sympathetic system inhibits smooth muscle in the digestive system.
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Either of these receptors has an excitatory or inhibitory effect on the end organ.
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I parametrically simulate all of: both short and long term potentiation from digital signal frequencies, axonial growth and destruction, formation of excitatory or inhibitory receptors, as appropriate (based on source neurotransmitter type or if it is a correlate verses anti-correlate interconnection).
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Two kinds of motor nerves, excitatory nerves that release acetylcholine and inhibitory nerves that release nitric oxide, account for all events that occur in smooth muscle of the esophagus in a swallow.
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Like the skin comparison neurons in the spinal cord, the center may be excitatory and the surround inhibitory.
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Individual muscle fibers may be innervated by one or both of the excitatory neurons, and generally receive inhibitory input as well.
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There are two main families of neurotransmitters in the brain: the excitatory neurotransmitters like adrenaline and the calming neurotransmitters like GABA (gamma amino butyric acid).
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Human narcolepsy generally stems from a shortage of the neurons, which produce the excitatory neurotransmitter known both as hypocretin and orexin.
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Glutamate, incidentally, is the workhorse excitatory transmitter for neurons in the brain.
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Second, small partially digested food proteins, called peptides, from gluten and casein can act to disturb the normal neurotransmitter function in the brain, and third, they can act as “excitotoxins,” increasing glutamate an excitatory neurotransmitter and creating a chain reaction that overexcites, injures, inflames and ultimately kills brain cells.
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Quantal analysis of excitatory synapses in the hippocampus has proved difficult and has led to contradictory conclusions when applied to long-term potentiation.
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Responses ensuing from the spontaneous release of single quanta are termed miniature excitatory junctional currents (mEJCs).
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This tonic contraction is mostly myogenic, due to special properties of this smooth muscle, but it is modified by excitatory and inhibitory nerves.
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Glutamate, incidentally, is the workhorse excitatory transmitter for neurons in the brain.
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Spontaneous central excitatory phenomena and a reduction in flow demand help mitigate the effect of attenuation of chemical and neuromechanical compensatory responses that characterizes REM sleep.
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The active transport mechanism for methylfolate across the blood-brain barrier strictly limits the entry of the vitamin, perhaps for reasons concerned with the excitatory properties of folic acid.
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It was found that the antagonist picrotoxin was unable to block the liver fluke to the excitatory effect of GABA, while it could partially block the roundworm to the inhibitory effect of GABA.
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In later work, which got little attention in the West, Pavlov sought to prove that dogs are of four temperamental types, "strong excitatory," "lively," "calm imperturbable, or phlegmatic," and "weak inhibitory.
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The need to develop a medication that is consistently effective for cocaine abuse has brought attention to another class of agents called excitatory amino acid antagonists.
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Ampakine drugs enhance excitatory communication, thereby partially or completely restoring the brains excitatory communication.
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Verbal disapproval, when used alone, has been shown to increase noncompliance, and shouted commands often result in excitatory effects in preschoolers.
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Pathological change is chronic and continual advancement, patients can emerge renal inadequacy, uraemia. excitatory autacoid and cytotoxic drug have bad curative effect and major adverse reaction.
