Sentences with phrase «send messages to other neurons»

And in a basket cell (above), axon branches, which allow the nerve cell to send messages to other neurons, cluster densely around the cell body.

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Action potentials, also known as nerve impulses, are electrical messages sent from our brains to other organs and muscles; for instance, nerves in the brain transmit action potentials through neural networks to direct our arm muscles to contract in order to call into action our hands to lift or hold an item, a primary research focus at the Columbia Motor Neuron Center, to which both the Zhang and Wichterle labs are affiliated.

That job is to communicate with other neurons by sending tiny chemical messages from one cell to another.

The brain cells targeted are called «glial» cells - not «neurons», which are the brain cells that send messages to each other.