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The high-speed signals that pass along the axon are called action potentials. They spread in a wave of depolarization.
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What electrical impulse travels outward from the cell body along what?
Typically, the electrical signal that travels from the dendrites across the cell body travels by cable conduction properties (like cable TV). Once the signal reaches the axon hillock, which is the spot where the axon branches off the cell body, the electrical signal starts traveling by action potentials (and maybe some cable conduction). The signal travels to the terminal end of the axon where it initiates a calcium influx, which in turn initiates a release of neurotransmitter to act on the next, post-synaptic neuron. The axon is the long process (arm) that extends from the first cell body to the next neuron.
What does an action potential refer to as?
An action potential is basically the message which is sent by the neuron down the axon towards synapse.In other words it is the impulse or the electrical signal that travels along the axon due to difference in the positive and negative charges inside and outside of the axon wall.
What is the path of an electrical impulse as it moves through a neuron?
The electrical impulse travels into the dendrites, the "input" of the neuron, and into the soma or "body" where the signal gets processed. From there, the processed signal travels down the axon or "output" and into the dendrites of another neuron.
Where are action potentials regenerated as they propagate along a myelinated axon?
First at the axon hillock where the neural impulse is initially triggered, and then at the nodes of Ranvier as the impulse continues to travel along the axon.(Note that the impulse travels as electrotonic conduction between the nodes of Ranvier, underneath the glial cells which myelinate the axon.)
Does a reverberating circuit involve an incoming signal that travels along a chain of neurons and quickly dies out?
No, a reverberating circuit does not involve an incoming signal that travels along a chain of neurons and quickly dies out. A reverberating circuit is a circular circuit that returns a signal to its source.
How are nerve impulses prevented from traveling the wrong way on axon?
On the axon hillock, there is a concentration of sodium channels whose role are to initiate the depolarization and signal transmission allong the axon. Once the all or none threshold is reached, depolarization occurs in a cascade unidirectional along the length of the axon, with potassium channels open just following the sodium-channel mediated depolarization, such that there is no back-propagation of the signal.
Do small unmyelinated axon travel signal faster than large unmyelinated axon?
no
How does an axon release neurostransmitter?
An axon sends signal from dendrites to terminals to release neurotransmitters
What are the main roles played by axon?
conducts electrical impulses away from the neuron's cell body or soma. It is basically what the nerve impulse travels along.
What is the electrical message that travels along a neuron?
electrical signal
A nerve impulse starts at the dendrite then travels to the?
axon
What is the junction between the axon of one nerve cell and the dendrite of another nerve cell?
No, not at all. The axon is the transmitting end of a neuron, and a dendrite is the receiving beginning of another neuron.The axon sends its signal "through" a synapse between the axon terminal and a dendrite via chemicals called neurotransmitters that it releases into the synaptic space, which diffuse to and are taken into structures on dendrites called ligand-gated ion pores, which open to allow sodium ions into the dendrite, which change its electrical charge, which initiates the propagation of a corresponding signal along the dendrite and cell body toward the axon hillock, which, if enough signals from dendrites reach it, will then fire and send the nerve signal onward along the axon, as an action potential.
