An increase in high-fat, high-fructose foods in people's diets has contributed to a dramatic increase in type 2 diabetes.

spinal cord or cranial nerves) or peripheral nervous system. Rabah et al. elegantly show that, in Drosophila, astrocytes signal to neurons with hydrogen peroxide to encode memories. This redox ...

Polyneuropathy occurs when multiple peripheral ... affects several nerves in different parts of the body at the same time. In cases of mononeuropathy, just one nerve is affected.

These results "make [genipin] an interesting compound for future applications in nerve regeneration in the [peripheral nervous system] and possibly prevention of peripheral neuropathies," Saito ...

The most complex nerve plexus is the brachial plexus ... The cords terminate in 5 main peripheral nerves: axillary, musculocutaneous, median, radial, and ulnar. Other prominent nerves originate ...