The ophthalmic nerve is purely a sensory nerve, and it doesn't provide any motor function. It is the smallest division of the trigeminal nerve, which is one of the 10 cranial nerves, which emerge from ...
Some of your nerves carry information from your five senses—sensory information—to and from your brain. Others enable movement— motor function—in your muscles and other moving parts. Some of them ...
But did all this regenerated tissue translate to improved function? To find out, the authors electrically stimulated the nerves on one end and measured the animals' whisker movement on the other side.
The study demonstrates the potential of genipin as a therapeutic agent for nerve regeneration. Laboratory results showed that the compound can restore normal development in damaged sensory neurons and ...