Axon
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An axon is a long slender projection of a nerve cell or neuron found in most animals that typically conducts electrical impulses known as action potentials away from the nerve cell body. The function
A dissected human brain, showing grey matter and white matter
TEM of a myelinated axon in cross-section
Synaptic connections from an axon
Axon of nine-day-old mouse with growth cone visible
Neuron
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A neuron, neurone, or nerve cell, is a cell that is excitable, firing electric signals called action potentials. Neurons form neural networks in the nervous system, mainly in the central nervous syste
Axon
…An axon (from Ancient Greek: ἄξων, romanized: áxōn, lit. 'axis'; also called a nerve fiber or fibre) is a long slender projection of a nerve cell or neuron found in most animals that typically conducts electrical impulses known as action potentials away from the nerve cell body. The function of the axon…
Golgi-stained neurons in human hippocampal tissue
Synaptic vesicles containing neurotransmitters
Drawing by Camillo Golgi of a hippocampus stained using the silver nitrate method