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| 3724278261 | action potential | electrical signal conducted along axons by which information is conveyed from one place to another | 0 | |
| 3724278262 | afferent neuron | neuron that conducts action potentials from the periphery toward the CNS | 1 | |
| 3724279770 | anterograde | signals that travel "forward" (from cell body to axon terminal, or CNS to periphery) | 2 | |
| 3724279771 | associational systems | neural cell circuits that are not part of the relatively defined sensory (input) and motor (output) systems; | 3 | |
| 3724279772 | astrocyte | glial cell; regulates ionic milieu or nerve cells and, sometimes transmitter reuptake | 4 | |
| 3724281203 | autonomic ganglia | 5 | ||
| 3724281204 | autonomic motor division (system) | regulation of smooth muscle, cardiac muscle, and glands | 6 | |
| 3724282743 | 7 | |||
| 3724282744 | axon | neuronal process that carries the action potential from nerve cell to body to a target | 8 | |
| 3724282745 | axon hillock | point at the cell body that is the site of an action potential's initiation | 9 | |
| 3724283893 | central nervous system | brain and spinal cord | 10 | |
| 3724283894 | chemical synapse | synapses that transmit information via secretion of chemical signals (NT) | 11 | |
| 3724285758 | commissure | axon tracts that cross the midline of the brain | 12 | |
| 3724285759 | convergence | innervation of a target cell by axons from more than one neuron. | 13 | |
| 3724285760 | cortex | superficial mantle of gray matter covering cerebral hemispheres and cerebellum, where most neurons in the brain are located | 14 | |
| 3724285761 | cranial nerve ganglia | sensory ganglia associated with cranial nerves; these correspond to the dorsal root ganglia of segmental nerves of the spinal cord | 15 | |
| 3724286522 | dendrite | neuronal process arising from nerve cell body that receives synaptic input | 16 | |
| 3724286523 | divergence | the branching of a single axon to innervate multiple target cells | 17 | |
| 3724286524 | dorsal root ganglia | segmental sensory ganglia of spinal cord; firs order neurons of dorsal column | 18 | |
| 3724286525 | efferent neuron | neuron or axon that conducts information away from the CNS toward periphery | 19 | |
| 3724287571 | electrical synapse | synapses that transmit information via the direct flow of electrical current at gap junctions | 20 | |
| 3724287572 | enteric system | influences gastric motility and secretion | 21 | |
| 3724290117 | ganglion | collection of hundreds of thousands of neurons found outside the brain and spinal cord along the course of peripheral nerves | 22 | |
| 3724290118 | gene | genetic information is carried by linear sequences of nucleotides in DNA that code for corresponding sequences of amino acids | 23 | |
| 3724290119 | glia | support cells associated with neurons | 24 | |
| 3724290120 | gray matter | area of CNS rich in neuronal cell bodies and neuropil | 25 | |
| 3724290137 | interneuron | neuron whose relatively short axons branch locally to innervate other neurons | 26 | |
| 3724291473 | local circuit neuron | neuron that mediates interactions between sensory systems and motor systems | 27 | |
| 3724292645 | microglial cell | concerned with repairing damage following neural injury | 28 | |
| 3724294029 | motor neuron | any nerve cell that innervates skeletal muscles | 29 | |
| 3724294031 | myelin | multilaminated wrapping around many axons formed by olig or Schwann cells | 30 | |
| 3724295138 | myotatic spinal reflex | generated by motor response to afferent sensory info arising from muscle spindles ("knee jerk reaction") | 31 | |
| 3724297656 | nerve cell | 32 | ||
| 3724297657 | nerve | 33 | ||
| 3724297658 | neural circuit | 34 | ||
| 3724297659 | neural system | 35 | ||
| 3724297660 | neuroglia | 36 | ||
| 3724299098 | neuron | 37 | ||
| 3724299099 | neuropil | 38 | ||
| 3724299100 | neurotransmitter | 39 | ||
| 3733707001 | molecule | 40 | ||
| 3733707002 | receptor | 41 | ||
| 3733707003 | nucleus | 42 | ||
| 3733708281 | oligodendrocyte | 43 | ||
| 3733708282 | parasympathetic division | 44 | ||
| 3733709613 | peripheral nervous system | 45 | ||
| 3733709800 | positron emission tomography | 46 | ||
| 3733711886 | postsynaptic speicialization | 47 | ||
| 3733711887 | post synaptic terminal | 48 | ||
| 3733713834 | projection neuron | 49 | ||
| 3733713835 | receptive field | 50 | ||
| 3733714123 | receptor potential | 51 | ||
| 3733715563 | retrograde tracing | 52 | ||
| 3733715564 | Schwann cell | 53 | ||
| 3733721929 | sensory systems | 54 | ||
| 3733721930 | single-cell | 55 | ||
| 3733723397 | electrophysiological recording | 56 | ||
| 3733723398 | SPECT | 57 | ||
| 3733724940 | single-unit | 58 | ||
| 3733724941 | electrophysiological recording | 59 | ||
| 3733726644 | somatic motor division | 60 | ||
| 3733726645 | spinal cord | 61 | ||
| 3733726646 | sympathetic division | 62 | ||
| 3733728099 | synaptic cleft | 63 | ||
| 3733728100 | synaptic potential | 64 | ||
| 3733728101 | synaptic transmission | 65 | ||
| 3733730475 | synaptic vesicle tract | 66 | ||
| 3733732054 | visceral motor division | 67 | ||
| 3733732055 | white matter | 68 | ||
| 3733750806 | neuroscience | 69 | ||
| 3733750807 | cell theory | 70 | ||
| 3733752578 | diagram of neuron | 71 | ||
| 3733754451 | how are they specialized for communication | 72 | ||
| 3733764631 | technique to find boundaries between layers of the cortex | 73 | ||
| 3733769014 | technique to determine where the axons from nucleus X project | 74 | ||
| 3733770959 | technique to visualize neurons that make protein Y | 75 | ||
| 3733775625 | technique to examine detailed dendritic structure of neurons in region Z | 76 | ||
| 3733780101 | are the number of genes an accurate predictor of organism's complexity | 77 | ||
| 3733781457 | what did Golgi and Cajal disagree about | 78 | ||
| 3733783277 | types of glial cells and functions | 79 | ||
| 3733783278 | why are neurons more important | 80 | ||
| 3733784792 | difference between CNS and PNS | 81 |
