What is the name of the location where a neuron can transfer an impulse to another cell? how is it pronounced?
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It is not the synapse *gap*, its merely the synapse.  it is pronounced "sin-aps".
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it's located in the cytoplasm
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Ok, Franko got it started-The action potential is propagated along the sensory axons, through the ulnar or other nerve (depending on exactly what part of your hand touched the stove), through the dorsal root ganglia (which is where the cell bodies for the sensory axon live) to the spinal cord.  There, they will release neurotransmitters at synapses with secondary sensory dendrites and cell bodies (which will send a signal on up the spinal cord to the brain) In addition, they will release neurotransmitters at synapses with interneurons, which synapse with motor neurons.  There motorneurons send axons to a number of muscles, such as the bicep.  A signal is generated at the motorneuron, sent down the axon, which then terminates on motor end-plates, which stimulate the muscle to contract, and thus pull the hand away.
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When a nerve impulse reaches a synapse, this releases signaling chemicals called neurotransmitters. These substances travel a short distance to the membrane of the next cell, where they attach to receptors. The binding of neurotransmitters to membrane receptors helps transfer electrical signals from cell to cell. \n\nReceptors are located in the membranes of the dendrites or cell bodies. One important feature of receptors is that they bind to specific types of nerve-signaling chemicals (neurotransmitters). In most cases, the binding of neurotransmitters will lead to the movement of specific molecules through the cell membrane (via a channel). This process passes the electrical (nerve) impulses. \n\nReceptor cells - receive information from the environment.\nSensory neurons - messages travel from the receptor cells through the sensory neurons to the spinal cord and brain.\nInterneurons - connect sensory neurons to the motor neurons.\nMotor neurons - messages travel from the brain and spinal cord through motor neurons to the muscles and glands\nEffector cells - cells stimulated by the motor neurons.
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It is called the corpus callosum.\n\n"A patient with a split brain, when shown an image in his or her left visual field (the left half of what each eye sees), will be unable to name what he or she has seen. This is because the speech control center is in the left side of the brain in most people and the image from the left visual field is sent only to the right side of the brain. Since the two sides of the brain cannot communicate, the patient can't name what he or she is seeing. The person can, however, pick up a corresponding object with their left hand, since that hand is controlled by the right side of their brain."
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1. They conduct electric impulses\n2. They have axons that transmit impulses to the next cell\n3. They have dendrites that receive impulses
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Neurons are a major class of cells (parenchyma) in the nervous system whose main role is to process and transmit information. In vertebrate animals, neurons are found in the brain, the spinal cord and in the nerves and ganglia of the peripheral nervous system.\n\nNeurons are typically composed of a cell body, a dendritic tree and an axon. In the classic view of vertebrate neuron function, the cell body and dendritic tree receive electrical signals from other neurons while the axon transmits electrical output signals. For invertebrate neurons, the information flow is less well defined.\nYOUR QUESTION:\nAre they the motor end plates of the effector neurones?\nYES:\nNeurons are able to generate and propagate electrical impulses because they have excitable membranes. Neurons make connections with other neurons and transmit information to them via synaptic transmission. Different types of neurons have different shapes(Like Plates), possess specific electrical properties adopted for their function and use different neurotransmitters.
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neurons are smaller. neurons make up a nerve.
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Ashton Family, where did you learn science?  E=mc^2 is a mass to energy conversion equation (incomplete by the way) developed by Einsten.  Nothing in our universe can travel faster the the speed of light.\n\nMessages from neurons travel faster that any other means in the body.  They are electrical impulses and thus travel at slightly slower than light (the neurons have to receive and retransmit the signal).\n\nTo figure out what is correct and why it is the fastest, lets try some logic.  Assume blood flow is the fastest, it must therefore travel faster than electrical impulses.  If this was the case, you'll have friction between the bloody flowing and the veins and arteries carrying them.  Since we don't feel burning sensations in our body this must not be the case.  Thus blood flow is not the fastest.  \n\nHormone diffusion.  Hormones are carried in our blood stream.  And we've already proven that blood flow is not faster than electrical impulses, so hormone diffusion must not travel faster than blood flow, and so hormone diffusion is not the fastest.\n\nMuscle contraction.  This is the result of neuron stimulation.  If muscles could move as fast as electrical impulses, they would be moving at light speed.  Try shaking your hand back and forth as fast as possible.  If you could move your hand at light speed through the air your hands would be burned to a crisp due to the friction.  Since you are unable to perform this function, muscle stimulation is not as fast as electrical impulses and thus again we prove that muscle stimulation is not the fastest communication throughout the body.\n\nWe've eliminated all possibilities except neuron impulse transmission.  We know that this is electrical transmission and we know that it is possible for this to be transmitting at the speed of light.  Therefore this must be the fasted communication through the body.\n\nBy the way the example that someone gave, about feeling heat and jerking away from it.  The time delay is not due to neuron transmission delay.  Something has to make sense of the nerve impulses.  In our case it is our spinal column that says "hey these signals mean the hand is touching something hot!".  The spinal column is "smart" enought to know this is dangerous and says "let go".  The nerve impulses still are travelling to the brain.  The brain does a lot more analysis of the signals, and by this time, it's figured out location, distance, which fingers, how long, how hot etc etc etc, the hand has already jerked away.  And just now you are feeling how hot, it is.
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I think you mean neurons... : )\n\nSensory neurons\nThese run from the various types of stimulus receptors, e.g., \ntouch \nodor \ntaste \nsound \nvision \nto the central nervous system (CNS), the brain and spinal cord. \n\nhttp://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/N/Neurons.html\n\n\ncheck out the above page for more info on neurons. Its fascinating!
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it's located in the brain stem, part of the autonomic nervous system and is involved in connecting information between the cerebrum and cerebellum.
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Dendrites recieve input, Axons carry them away.
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A nerve cell is specialized to carry messages, in the form of electrical impulses, very fast through the body.
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When u insert two electrodes to measure impulse travelling along a nerve, two recordings are obtained.\nThis is because recording occurs, once when the impulse reaches the site of the first electrode, Secondly, the reading is obtained when the impulse reaches the second electrode site.\nThis recording is known Biphasic record.
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In what respect?\nYet more general questions asked by inquisitive ... erm.... well... I shall try to answer...\n\nThey are both substancial collections of atoms... formed into molecules... mostly water though a fair number of hydrocarbons and amino acids, among other similar structures. \nThey're both animal cells...  presumably human animal cells in this case... That means they have a cell membrane, nucleus, mitochondria and various smaller organelles.\n\nAside from that, we have the specifics of those cells:\nThey're both rather skinny for one thing... lengthy and skinny. Neurones... i.e. nerve cells.... can however be easily as long as the entire length of your forearm... and yet thinner than most cells. Sperm are very much smaller than that. \n\nFeature-wise... nerve cells have dentrites... branching extensions of the cell membrane... at each end. These are to connect to other neurones and transmit signals between them. The signals are transferred through the cell itself along the axon... which is the long, thin bit in the middle.... by means of an ionic differential gradient between potassium and sodium ions. In almost all cases, neurones will be found in bundles (since they're so thin) to cover a wide area and send as much data as possible to and from the brain.\nThere are different kinds of neurones that serve different functions.... in particular motor neurones (which transmit data from the brain to the body)  ... well... whatever the opposite ones... sensory neurones maybe... (which, by whatever name, transmit data from the sensory organs to the brain)... and interneurones... which join the others together inbetween.  As I recall, the neurones in the brain are of different types again, but I don't know the slightest thing about those.\nAnyhow... I don't think I can tell you much more about nerve cells.\n\n\nSperm on the other hand... are male gametes.... produced in vast numbers at very little bodily expense per cell. Each one is basically just a haploid nucleus (one copy of each chromosome) with a flagellum (a 'tail' to propel the cell forward) and just enough cytoplasm and mitochondria to power it for a short journey. They are generated at quite an alarming rate in the testes.... and their entire purpose is to be ejaculated into the female reproductive system and propel themselves forcefully and rather erratically to an awaiting ovum.... Eventually, of the ones that reach the ovum (most die along the way due to the corrosive substances which coat the inside of the uterus), one will get chemically accepted by the larger cell and allowed to fuse the cytoplasms together. The nuclei will then fuse into a single diploid (2 of each chromosome) nucleus.... and the newly fertilised cell will begin to divide.  Note however that while the nucleus of the sperm is allowed to fuse with the nucleus of the ovum... the mitochondria that are in the sperm will be destroyed by the new host cell.... hence all the mitochondria you will ever have are near-identical copies of your mother's ones (not perfect copies since mutations can and will occur between generations).\n\n\nRight... I've had enough of answering this question now...\nOff to other things.
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Neurons carry msgs through an electrochemical signal\nthree types of neurons r involved in this process...\nSensory (or afferent) neurons: send information from sensory receptors (e.g., in skin, eyes, nose, tongue, ears) TOWARD the central nervous system. \nMotor (or efferent) neurons: send information AWAY from the central nervous system to muscles or glands. \nInterneurons: send information between sensory neurons and motor neurons. Most interneurons are located in the central nervous system.
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An action potential is an all-or-nothing response to a stimulus of threshold in the membrane of a neuron.  A neurotransmitter from a previous neuron or a stimulus from the environment causes a graded potential in the soma of the neuron.  The potential reaches the axon hillock leading to the axon.  If the potential or sum of all the potentials is strong enough to reach the treshold of the axon hillock, an action potential is initiated down the axon.  \n\nVoltage-gated Na+ channels open allowing Na ions to rush into the cell causing the inside of the axon to become positive.  Shortly after, the time-delayed K+ voltage-gated channels open allowing K ions to move out of the cell and bring the potential back toward neutral.  The Na-K ATPase pumps then begin to work to pump Na+ back out of the cell and K+ back into the cell.\n\nThe large positive potential from the influx of Na+ stimulates the opening of voltage-gated channels further down the axon and the process repeats until the axon terminal is reached.  There, channels allow Ca2+ to enter the cell and cause the release of neurotransmitters from synaptic vesicles into the synaptic cleft.