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Components of the nervous system

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  • What is nervous tissue made up of?
    Neurons and glial cells
  • Where do the electric signals exit?
    Through the axon terminal
  • What do neurons do?
    They generate and transmit nerve impulses
  • What detect neurotransmitters?
    Receptors located in the dendrite membrane or the cell body
  • What is a synapses?
    A form of neuronal communication?
  • What is the specialized tissue that protects and supports neurons called?
    The neuroglia
  • What receive impulses from receptors?
    Dendrites
  • What functions can neurons have?
    Sensory, motor, or relay
  • What does the axon terminal release?
    Messengers called neurotransmitters
  • How do neurons transmit information?
    As electric signals
  • Between the neurons there is a space. What is it called?
    A synaptic cleft
  • What is the long fiber that transmits nerve impulses called?
    Axon
  • What are the types of glial cells?
    Astrocytes, microglia, and oligodendrocytes and Shawann cells
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