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tension

get on someone's nerves

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nerve yourself

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  • brace yourself
  • prepare yourself
  • steel yourself
  • fortify yourself
  • gear yourself up
  • gee yourself up
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Synonyms for nerve

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SFEMG has been suggested as a quantitative method for supporting chronic partial denervation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) by the revised EI Escorial criteria.[sup][9] Due to progressive denervation and reinnervation, immature nerve terminals, and impaired transmission in the endplates, SFEMG in ALS patients showed increased jitter and fiber density (FD), which reflected the neuromuscular junction transmission failure and reinnervation condition due to the progression of ALS.
The effects of local anesthetics on motor nerve terminals. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 1968; 159:353-361.
Seven botulinum neurotoxins (A to G) have been found, and all act in the postsynaptic cholinergic nerve terminals [10].
Given the disparate underlying regional patterns for the other two markers, the first explanation is likely to be true for the occipital cortex and midbrain, whereas the latter is more probable for the temporal cortex: reactive sprouting is typical after damage to developing nerve terminals or projections (Kostrzewa and Jacobowitz 1974) and, again, has been found for the effects of prenatal nicotine exposure in rodents (Navarro et al.
This site displayed the same characteristic, high-affinity binding (nanomolar [K.sub.d]) of HC-3 as in the mammalian brain, and by mid-pluteus 1, the concentration of binding sites relative to membrane protein was > 200 fmol/mg, comparable with mammalian brain regions that are enriched in cholinergic nerve terminals (Zahalka et al.
Zahalka E, Seidler FJ, Lappi SE, Yanai J, Slotkin TA, 1993a, Differential development of cholinergic nerve terminal markers in rat brain regions: implications for nerve terminal density, impulse activity and specific gene expression.
A total of 34 patients had normal motor latency on both the left and right sides as determined by pudendal nerve terminal motor latency studies.
The isolation of pure cholinergic nerve terminal sacs (T-sacs) from electric organ of juvenile Torpedo.
Anal sphincter electromyography, cinedefecography, and pudendal nerve terminal motor latency are either clinically obsolete or useless, he said.
Single calcium channels and acetylcholine release at a presynaptic nerve terminal. Neuron 11: 1007-1011.
The median nerve terminal latency index in carpal tunnel syndrome: a clinical case selection study.
After being exposed, for 5 minutes, to 50 [micro]g/mL of methanolic extract, PND preparations showed a profound and significant 32% reduction in the number of synaptic vesicles, per nerve terminal, when compared to control (n = 4-6): 74 [+ or -] 4 synaptic vesicles for methanolic extract versus 103 [+ or -] 11 for Tyrode solution (P < 0.05).
We measured the effects of BoNT or BDNF application using stereological estimates of chemically defined nerve terminal densities in motor nuclei, a motor recovery test, and retrograde labeling of motoneurons.