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Q: What is the covering over nerves fibers made up of living cells?
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What is the covering of nerve fibers made up of living cells?

what is the portion of the brain containing control certer for body's functions and emotions: means "under the inner rool"


How are nerves formed?

Nerves are formed in a late stage of development, when some of the cells composing the nerve cord and the brain send out long fibers bound together in bundles (nerves).


What are nerves composed of?

Nerves are composed of nerve cells; the long connecting parts of the nerve cells are called axons. The biochemistry of nerve cells is similar to that of other cells, but they do have an insulating layer, the myelin sheath, which gives them a relatively high concentration of fat.


What are hair nerves?

Hair is dead cells and actually has no nerves. When you pull on your hair, it is actually the living nerves in your scalp which register it.


At what junction do nerves contact skeletal muscle fibers?

Motor neurons meet the muscle cells at neuromuscular junctions. Neurotransmitters are passed from the nerve across a synaptic cleft to the muscle to make it contract. Any damage to this nerve will mean that those cells will not contract (move).


A thin covering that the cells in all living things have?

a cell membrane


What is the function of of periosteum?

AnswerThe Periosteum serves as an attachment point for muscles and bones through tendons and ligaments. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Or, Inner layer can breakdown and build bone cells. Not necessarily its "function". It's a fibrous membrane covering (of bone), attached by fibers that happen to enter into bone, "Sharpey's fibers"; allowing nerves, and blood / lymphatic vessels to pass though it and then into bone through nutrient foramina. The periosteum covers bone and provides nourishment to the bone through the blood vessels and nerves contained within it.


What group of fibers spreads impulses at up to 2 meters per second?

The group of fibres that spread impulses throughout the body are called nerves or neurons. They are a specific type of cells which can undergo electrical stimulation to conduct impulses.


Why does nerves fatigue?

Usually nerves have good capacity to send signals. These signals are send by depolarization waves across the nerve fibers. For re polarization of the nerves, energy is required and if impulses has to be sent more repeatedly than energy can be generated by cells, there will nerve fatigue, for example after an attack of Fit.(Seizer attack.)


What are long fibers called?

Muscle cells are called fibers.


What cells are in the body?

Nerves cells red blood cells ..........


Which type of cell has spindle fibers?

Animal cells have spindle fibers in them.