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The nervous system is a central component of the human body, but most people don't spend much time thinking about it.

These move towards the central nervous system (CNS). The CNS is the brain and spinal cord. It coordinates the responses. Messages are then sent back along different neurones to muscles which ...

Cugell, MD, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical ... be a possible therapeutic target for treating central nervous system diseases. Microglia also drive immune responses ...

An international team of scientists has uncovered a fascinating piece of the evolutionary puzzle: how the ventral nerve cord, a key component of the central nervous system, evolved in ecdysozoan ...