Glia
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Glia, also called glial cells or neuroglia, are non-neuronal cells in the central nervous system and in the peripheral nervous system that do not produce electrical impulses. The neuroglia make up mor
An astrocyte from a rat brain grown in tissue culture and stained with antibodies to GFAP (red) and vimentin (green)
Neoplastic glial cells stained with an antibody against GFAP (brown), from a brain biopsy
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
Glia
…Glia, also called glial cells or neuroglia, are non-neuronal cells in the central nervous system (the brain and the spinal cord) and in the peripheral nervous system that do not produce electrical impulses. The…
Golgi-stained neurons in human hippocampal tissue
Synaptic vesicles containing neurotransmitters
A signal propagating down an axon to the cell body and dendrites of the next cell
Drawing by Camillo Golgi of a hippocampus stained using the silver nitrate method