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Since life as we know it is cellular, any biological system has "anything to do" with cells :) Nervous system is no exception: it's tissues (e.g. brain) consist of heavily interlinked groups of cells, called neurons, which main function is creating and transporting neural impulses in different ways, involving complicated chemical and electro-chemical processes.

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