What is the job of nerve tissue?

Answer 1

It carries electrical signals that affect muscle tissue.

The fourth primary type of tissue is nerve tissue. Nerve tissue is found in the brain, spinal cord, and accompanying nerves. The function of the nerve tissue is to move and coordinate bodily functions.

Nerve tissue is composed at two subtypes of tissue:

1. Specialized cells called neurons (nerve cells) receive stimuli and conduct impulses to and from all parts of the body

2. . Neuroglial or glial cells. Unlike bone, which is rigid, nerve tissue has a wet noodle-like compactness, and therefore must be supported by connective tissue. Some glial cells support neurons in the brain and spinal cord by entwining around them, while others bind neurons to other connective tissue. Both the brain and spinal cord are covered by three thin layers of tissue called meninges: the dura mater (external layer); the arachnoids (middle layer); and the pia mater (internal layer).

Answer 2

1. it may be myelinated to avoid leaking out of impulses from one node to another(in saltatory conduction)

2. also myelin sheath helps to insulate the axon so as to speed up transmission of a nerve impulse.

3. the axon membrane has got numerous mitochondria which provide ATP energy for the conduction of nerve impulse.

4.presence of numerous dendrites help to ease receiving nerve impulses.

Answer 3

functions in the integration of stimulus and control of response to that stimulus.

Answer 4

The job of nerve tissue is to transport or send messages to the brain.

Answer 5

spinal cord and brain

Answer 6

Mostly nerve cells