where are axons located in the brain?
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A bundle of axons make a nerve tract in the central nervous system, and a fascicle in the peripheral nervous system. In placental mammals the largest white matter tract in the brain is the corpus callosum, formed of some 200 million axons in the human brain.
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They are pseudo unipolar neurons with cell bodies residing in one of several ganglia located near the central nervous system, with the short branch of the axon connecting to the spinal cord or the brain stem and the long branch extending towards the peripheral organ they innervate.
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It is popularly thought that the major electricity in the brain consists of neurons' electric signals along axons to the synapse to another neuron. This electrical signal, called the “action potential” travels along the axon and usually triggers the delivery of a neurotransmitter to another neuron.
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In the neurons that make up the nerves running from the spinal cord to your toes, the axons can be as long as three feet! Longer axons are usually covered with a myelin sheath, a series of fatty cells which have wrapped around an axon many times.
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Axons in the lateral corticospinal tract leave out of the tract and into the anterior horns of the spinal cord. It controls fine movement of ipsilateral limbs (albeit contralateral to the corresponding motor cortex) as it lies distal to the pyramidal decussation.
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Axons are covered by a membrane known as an axolemma; the cytoplasm of an axon is called axoplasm.
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Answer and Explanation: Axons and dendrites are both extensions or projections from the cell body. Both can be part of a neuron and both are responsible for transmitting the...
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Synaptic vesicles are located in the axon terminals (in the synaptic bulbs), close to the presynaptic membrane ready to deliver the neurotransmitters by exocytosis.
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Neurons have specialized projections called dendrites and axons. Dendrites bring information to the cell body and axons take information away from the cell body. Information from one neuron flows to another neuron across a synapse. The synapse contains a small gap separating neurons.
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A motor neuron (or motoneuron) is a neuron whose cell body is located in the motor cortex, brainstem or the spinal cord, and whose axon (fiber) projects to the spinal cord or outside of the spinal cord to directly or indirectly control effector organs, mainly muscles and glands.
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The pons is the largest part of the brainstem, located above the medulla and below the midbrain. It is a group of nerves that function as a connection between the cerebrum and cerebellum (pons is Latin for bridge).
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Where is the pons? The pons is a major division of the brainstem. It is found above the medulla and below the midbrain, and is anterior to (in front of) the cerebellum.
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KEY POINTS Except for the spinal cord, the brain's lower-level structures are largely located within the hindbrain, diencephalon (or interbrain), and midbrain. The hindbrain consists of the medulla oblongata, the pons, and the cerebellum, which control respiration and movement among other functions.
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Axons transmit information from the neuron on to other neurons to which it is interconnected. To speed up the transmission of electrical signals along the axon, many axons are covered in a myelin sheath. Dendrites receive information transmitted by the axons of other neurons.
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Most neurons have a cell body, an axon, and dendrites. The cell body contains the nucleus and cytoplasm. The axon extends from the cell body and often gives rise to many smaller branches before ending at nerve terminals.