Neuron (redirect from Nerve cell)
A neuron, neurone, or nerve cell is an excitable cell that fires electric signals called action potentials across a neural network in the nervous system...
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perineurium. Finally, the entire nerve is wrapped in a layer of connective tissue called the epineurium. Nerve cells (often called neurons) are further...
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Ganglion (redirect from Preganglionic cell)
cell bodies of sensory (afferent) neurons. Cranial nerve ganglia contain the cell bodies of cranial nerve neurons. Autonomic ganglia contain the cell...
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Motor neuron (redirect from Motor nerve cell)
measure. Betz cell Central chromatolysis Motor dysfunction Motor neuron disease Nerve Sensory nerve Motor nerve Afferent nerve fiber Efferent nerve fiber Sensory...
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Axon (redirect from Nerve fiber)
Greek ἄξων áxōn, axis) or nerve fiber (or nerve fibre: see spelling differences) is a long, slender projection of a nerve cell, or neuron, in vertebrates...
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Myelin (/ˈmaɪ.əlɪn/ MY-ə-lin) is a lipid-rich material that surrounds nerve cell axons (the nervous system's electrical wires) to insulate them and increase...
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Synapse (redirect from Nerve synapse)
that permits a neuron (or nerve cell) to pass an electrical or chemical signal to another neuron or to the target effector cell. Synapses are essential...
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Nervous system (redirect from Nerve system)
jellyfish and hydra, the nervous system consists of a nerve net, a diffuse network of isolated cells. In bilaterian animals, which make up the great majority...
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neurotransmitters at the basal end of the cell. The neurotransmitters diffuse across the narrow space between the hair cell and a nerve terminal, where they then bind...
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Action potential (redirect from Nerve impulse)
contraction. In beta cells of the pancreas, they provoke release of insulin. Action potentials in neurons are also known as "nerve impulses" or "spikes"...
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