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- W2296408295 abstract "This chapter describes the plasma membrane of nerve cells. The nerve cells of mammals are found in the central nervous system, which comprises the brain and spinal cord, and in the peripheral nervous system, which extends throughout the body. Mammalian nerves differ markedly in appearance depending on their function. Motor neurones of the peripheral nervous system, which activate muscles or glands often located at bodily extremities, may be several meters in length. Neurones of the central nervous system are usually quite restricted in length but can have extensively branching processes as in the Purkinje cells of the cerebellum. Despite their morphological differences, neurones behave in very similar ways and a generalized neurone can be described. The nerve is characterized by one long process, the axon; many shorter processes, the dendrites; and a cell body or soma, which may lie on the path between dendrites and axon or may be displaced to the side. In nerve cells, an electrical impulse of short duration, the action potential, once initiated at a point on the axon will propagate undiminished to the end of the axon." @default.
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- W2296408295 title "The composition and structure of excitable nerve membrane" @default.
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