A new understanding of how tumours exploit our nervous system is leading to new ways to treat cancer using familiar drugs ...

In their new study, the researchers showed that EC cells integrate information about chemical irritants, bacterial compounds, and stress hormones in the gut, then use serotonin to pass that ...

The more Monje has looked for a connection between cancer and the nervous system, the more she's found. Tumor cells often travel along nerve cells to other parts of the body, using them almost ...

Your nervous system contains millions of nerve cells, called neurons. Neurons are highly specialised to transmit messages from one part of your body to another. All neurons have a cell body and ...

The University of South Alabama conducted research to see how cancer cells exploit their environment to grow and spread.

The central nervous system is made up of the brain and spinal cord. ... The nerve axons of the CNS — the slender projections of nerve cells that carry impulses — are much shorter.

Nerve cell discovery may lead to better treatment for diseases of the nervous system. ... zebrafish are a species with a nervous system that is remarkably similar to that found in humans.

The nervous system is the body’s direct communication system. It’s made up of the body’s many nerve cells. These cells work together in a network that sends and receives signals from one ...

In the nervous systems of everything from anemones to aardvarks, electrical impulses pass between nerve cells, allowing for signals to move from one cell to the next.

These sympathetic nervous system cells were thought to be lacking in jawless vertebrates. ... Lampreys have the nerve cells responsible for the “fight or flight” response.

The research team began by analyzing gene expression — which bits of DNA are converted into RNA used to make cell proteins — in more than 65,000 individual cells across four placozoan species.