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    The document discusses the nervous system and different types of neurons. It notes there are three main types of neurons - unipolar, bipolar, and multipolar - and neurons can be categorized by their function as afferent, efferent, or internuncial. Key terms are also defined, including synapses, neurotransmitters, dendrites, axons, and the blood brain barrier.

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    The document discusses the nervous system and different types of neurons. It notes there are three main types of neurons - unipolar, bipolar, and multipolar - and neurons can be categorized by their function as afferent, efferent, or internuncial. Key terms are also defined, including synapses, neurotransmitters, dendrites, axons, and the blood brain barrier.

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    Nervous System

    NERVE CELLS = NEURONS


    Types of Neurons
    information highway

    Unipolar
    Bipolar
    Multipolar
    Note: Signal transmission is unidirectional
    Categories of Neurons
    by function

    1. Afferent (sensory): bipolar or


    multipolar cells associated with sense
    organs & bring signals toward the CNS
    2. Efferent (motor): unipolar cells that
    conduct signal away from the CNS
    3. Internuncial (association or inter-):
    unipolar neurons that conduct signals
    within the CNS
    TERMINOLOGIES
    Synapses: special junctions between two nerve cells
    Neurotransmitters: substance that act as chemical messengers,
    diffusing across the synapse and triggers a new impulse in the dendrite
    1. Acetylcholine (for chem’l transmission)
    2. Glutamate (for neuromuscular transmissions)

     Dendrite: a neuronal projection which receives stimulus from the


    environment or another nerve cell
     Axon: a neuronal projection that is very long, and have terminal
    branches which transmits information chemically via synapses to the
    dendrite of another neuron or to an effector organ
     BBB (blood brain barrier): a sheath of connective tissue and
    perineurial glial cells surrounding the CNS forming a barrier between
    the nerve cells and hemocoele

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