He was forty-nine years old. Leprosy -- also called Hansen's disease is a bacterial disease that causes skin wounds and nerve damage.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

They used light-sensitive molecules to turn on and off nerve cells in the deep brain structure of mice.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

Research published mainly in nineteen seventy-three had found proteins on the surfaces of nerve cells in the brain.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

MS symptoms can depend on where the nerve scars are in the body's central nervous system.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

Still,broken bones should be treated quickly because they can restrict blood flow or cause nerve damage.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

Electric signals start in nerve cells and travel along these fibers to and from the brain.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

Stem cells have the ability to grow other cells, such as heart, nerve or brain cells.

VOA: special.2010.06.15

But experts believe the electrical current might help activate nerve cells that are not working correctly.

VOA: special.2009.02.03

Over time,high blood sugar can lead to blindness, kidney failure, heart disease and nerve damage.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

The system contains millions of nerve cells joined together by long thin fibers, like wires.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

The Epilepsy Foundation says people using Vagus Nerve Stimulation still must take anti-seizure medicines.

VOA: special.2010.10.26

In people with MS, when nerve signals reach a damaged area, some of the signals are blocked or delayed from traveling to or from the brain.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

Evidence shows that extended periods of cortisol in the body weakens bones, damages nerve cells in the brain and weakens the body's defense system against disease.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

Her brain had sticky structures and nerve cells that appeared to be mixed together.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

About ten years ago, a device called the Vagus Nerve Stimulator was developed.

VOA: special.2010.10.26

When the nerve is made active, it starts pain linked to cluster headaches.

VOA: special.2010.03.30

The disease causes nerve problems in the hands and feet and muscle weakness.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

It swells, or grows larger, and loses its connection with the nerve fibers.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

The nerve starts a process that makes one eye watery and red.

VOA: special.2010.03.30

These problems were more common among males, those with injured nerve tissue in the brain and those who had been given oxygen supplies for days as a baby.

VOA: special.2010.11.30

Calcium is needed for nerve and muscle cells to work normally.

VOA: special.2009.04.21

Nerve cells use electrical particles to communicate with each other.

VOA: special.2010.10.26

"Great pirates of Penzance!" says I, "of all the nerve."

VOA: special.2011.01.22

They produce reactions in the nerve cells in the brain.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

Hardened, scar tissue then forms over the nerve fibers.

VOA: special.2009.01.06