nerve cells
Signaling body units
Nerve cells are the specialized cells that transmit electrical and chemical signals throughout the nervous system.
Also called neurons, they form networks that carry sensory information to the brain, process it, and send commands to muscles and organs.
The term appears in both scientific and general contexts: Alcohol damages nerve cells in the brain.
- node of RanvierExposed axon between myelin
- dorsal root gangliaSensory neuron cell clusters
- brain cellsNeural tissue components
- dendriteNeuron's input branch
- axonNeuron's signal-sending projection
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- invertebrate neuronsganglia, synapse, axons, dendrites, interneurons
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- brain sciencebrain scan, brain research, brain map, brain imaging, brain chemistry
- nervous systembrain, spinal cord, axon, dendrite, synapse
- neuroscienceMRI, brain, synapses, dendrite, neurotransmitters
- brain partscerebellum, hippocampus, brainstem, thalamus, hypothalamus
nerve cellsmuscle fibers
Contractile cells in tissue
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nerve cellsglia
Non-neuronal brain cells
neuroglia · astrocytes · microglia · fibroblasts · support cells
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