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| | Laser Health Solutions |
 | | Vertebrogenic Radioculopathy: pain referred down the course of a nerve as a result of degenerative changes to the structure of the vertebral body. | | | Discogenic Radioculopathy: pain referred down the course of a nerve as a result of a derangement of an intervertebral disc. | | | Fascia: a sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue that lies deep to the skin or forms a covering for muscles and various other organs of the body. |
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| | Harvard Gazette: Studying 'business end of nerve cell' |
| | The cells and their signals guide everything from thought to movement to emotion to the perception of smells and the reading of a newspaper. | | | Durable and reliable, the same synapses can work throughout a person's life, delivering as many as 100 messages each second to nerve or muscle cells. | | | Yet the structures are also flexible and capable of modification to meet changing conditions. |
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| | Wired News: Gold Medal for Nerve Cell Growers |
| | Researchers created the rings using science that is the precursor to a technique that may one day help repair spinal cord injuries or brain damage. | | | The technology that created the rings could one day be used to reconnect damaged nerves in people with brain injury or spinal cord injury. | | | Ultimately, tissue engineers want to build a scaffold that would stimulate and support nerve regeneration in the damaged spinal cord or brain, said Julie Hasenwinkel, an assistant professor of bioengineering and neuroscience at Syracuse University. |
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| | Study links abnormal pain syndrome to nerve cell changes |
| | These are large mixed nerves that contain motor and sensory fibers," said Dr. Edward R. Perl, professor of cell and molecular physiology at the UNC-CH School of Medicine. | | | "Typical injuries that have led to the causalgic syndrome are injuries to a large nerve like the sciatic nerve, which runs the length of the leg, or the ulnar and median nerves of the arm. | | | In terms of stopping the pain, limited and mostly temporary success has been achieved by surgical removal of the affected segment of sympathetic nerve or by using local anesthetics as nerve blocks. |
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| | The Whitaker Foundation News: Biological Scaffold to Grow Neurons |
| | Paralysis from spinal injuries and other nerve damage tends to be irreversible because the human body virtually ceases nerve-cell production after the prenatal years. | | | In their experiments, the group compared the behavior of neurons grown on the peptide scaffolds with neurons grown on a commercially available surface called Matrigel and found no difference between the two. | | | Within the sheet, the peptides appear as individual interwoven fibers that form a matrix or scaffold. |
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| | Cornell News: Brain cell transplantation |
| | The system, first tested with rat fetal brain cells and nerve growth factor (NGF) implanted in the brains of adult rats, has yet to be demonstrated in humans. | | | These are all problems that must be overcome in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases and spinal cord injuries. | | | But the technique to create microenvironments for tissue growth is said to be adaptable to a variety of other transplantation needs, including the treatment of neurodegenerative disease and spinal cord injuries. |
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| | Bone marrow, nerve cell fusion may repair damage |
| | She said researchers previously considered fusion to be less medically important than the idea that bone marrow cells may be able to change fates entirely. | | | Blau said the next step is to learn under what circumstances bone marrow cells fuse with Purkinje cells. | | | Other study participants include postdoctoral scholar Clas Johansson, PhD, and research associate Angelica Trejo. |
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| | Nobel scientist Julius Axelrod dies at 92; studied nerve cell communication |
| | Julius Axelrod, a National Institutes of Health neuroscientist who won the Nobel Prize for his work on how nerve cells communicate and affect behavior, has died. | | | The two found that acetaminophen was the active ingredient in a then-common headache treatment. | | | Earlier in his career, Axelrod helped identify acetaminophen, used in the pain reliever Tylenol. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/12/31/obituary1554EST0578.DTL
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| | New findings on nerve cell proteins show promise for reducing disability |
| | "We are on our way to developing a treatment that is effective in preventing motor nerve cell death, which is significant to people because loss of motor neurons means paralysis," said Tytell, professor of neurobiology and anatomy at Wake Forest Baptist. | | | However, there are technical problems getting the nerve "circuitry" to grow back to normal. | | | It is licensed to operate 1,282 acute care, psychiatric, rehabilitation and long-term care beds and is consistently ranked as one of "America's Best Hospitals" by U.S. News & World Report. |
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| | Fibromyalgia & Myofascial Pain Syndrome |
| | A muscle in a state of sustained tension is working, thus its need for nutrition and oxygen is high. | | | So much of the psychological and physical sense of continuity and security depends upon our ability to repeat appropriate and predictable actions. | | | It is the support network that gives the body its shape, and determines its flexibility. |
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http://fibromyalgia.ncf.ca/dsfmsmps.htm
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| | Science News: Molecules that guide or nourish nerves - nerve cell connections - Brief Article |
| | Zheng and his colleagues used a very fine needle to squirt acetychotine into one side of a dish containing a sprouting nerve cell taken from a frog. | | | As these routant animals develop, the researchers study why some nerve connections survive and others do not. | | | In every developing organism, nerve cells must thread their way through a jumble of other cells to particular targets, be they muscles, sense organs, or other nerve cells. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_n11_v145/ai_14909316
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| | Parts of the nerve cell and their function |
| | The cells that wrap around axons within the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) are called oligodendrocytes. | | | Altering the neurotransmitters can also change whether the stimulation is excitatory or inhibitory. | | | The cells that wrap around peripheral nerve fibers - that is, nerve fibers outside of the brain and spinal cord - are called Schwann cells (because they were first described by Theodor Schwann). |
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http://www.cerebromente.org.br/n07/fundamentos/neuron/parts_i.htm
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| | Addiction Science Research and Education Center |
| | We assume, then, that for something to be able to produce addiction, it must have a major action on the pleasure pathway. | | | When these drugs act on other parts of the brain, other things happen, such as increased muscle movement, jitteriness, increased talkativeness, and even hallucinations. | | | So the part of the brain that is affected by the drug determines the pharmacological actions and side effects, in spite of the fact that the drug works on the same place on the cell in every part of the brain! |
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| | Research on nerve cell circuitry reveals clue about schizophrenia |
| | Their study of nerve cell circuitry is a new approach to learning about schizophrenia. | | | Kids who drink early in life: What does it mean for their future? | | | Scientists believe that in schizophrenia patients, the signal-blocking cells are weak. |
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| | Weill Cornell Researchers Discover Key Triggers in Nerve Cell Damage |
| | While the researchers used small-molecule inhibitors in their cell-based studies, "much more work needs to be done to find ones that will work effectively and safely in patients," said Dr. Hempstead. | | | This work opens avenues for drug development that strongly contrast with past efforts to exploit neurotrophin actions. | | | The findings may lead to new ways to prevent apoptosis, which occurs following brain and spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's. |
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| | TUDCA, J7 |
| | By intervening at an early point in the apoptosis pathway and preventing the transfer of Bax to the mitochondria, TUDCA has the potential to save certain kinds of cells from early death. | | | A group of researchers tested TUDCA in animal models of HD to see if the above theory could translate into practice. | | | Despite all of these positive aspects of the drug, TUDCA has yet to be tested for its effects on humans with HD. |
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| | Neuron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In vertebrates, they are found in the brain, the spinal cord and in the nerves and ganglia of the peripheral nervous system. | | | Multiple sclerosis is a neurological disorder which results from abnormal demyelination of peripheral nerves. | | | This is the structure which carries nerve signals away from the neuron. |
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| | Zebrafish May Hold Key To Understanding Human Nerve Cell Development |
| | However, in humans hair cells are buried deep inside the inner ear making them difficult to access. | | | Much more research is needed to identify this signal but we're optimistic our work has set the stage for future discoveries," said Piotrowski. | | | Traditionally viewed as supporting actors, cells known as glia may be essential for the normal development of nerve cells responsible for hearing and balance, according to new University of Utah research. |
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| | A reflex arc is a simple example of how nerve cells help to control and coordinate processes in the body. | | | Elongated cell that transmits information rapidly between different parts of the body, the basic functional unit of the nervous system. | | | The anatomy and action of a nerve cell. |
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| | Nerve cell regrowth promising - 07/02/01 |
| | The neurons were then cultured in a lab under conditions mirroring the body's central nervous system, where the nerve fibers began to spread out over time like the branches of a tree sapling. | | | SALT LAKE CITY, Utah -- Scientists have found a way to re-grow nerve cells that have usually stopped their development, an advance that could lead to treatments for stroke, Alzheimer's disease and spinal injuries. | | | Condic and colleagues began by manipulating a single gene important during nerve development and inserting it into critical nerves, called neurons, taken from adult rats. |
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| | AllRefer Health - Medical News > Mystery behind nerve cell death unravelled |
| | Diet-obsessed parents putting their kids health at risk | | | AllRefer Health - Medical News > Mystery behind nerve cell death unravelled | | | This is the first study to clearly identify this kind of enzyme pathway outside, rather than inside, the nerve cells. |
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| | UK Researchers: Protein May Cause Nerve Cell Death in Alzheimer's Disease |
| | Rangnekar said that Mattson became aware of his cancer research and suggested that Par-4 might play a role in the same molecular processes that occur in neurodegenerative disorders. | | | Announced in the August issue of Nature Medicine, the research results show an increased level of Par-4 in nerve cells in the brains of Alzheimer’s disease patients, suggesting the protein may be a contributing factor to the disease. | | | Previous studies have shown that nerve cells in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients die by apoptosis, a term used to describe programmed cell death. |
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| | Nervous System / Nerve Tissue |
| | Commonly called a Morton's Neuroma, this problem is fairly common benign nerve growth and begins when the outer coating of a nerve in your foot thickens. | | | Rarely, individuals develop multiple schwannomas arising from one or many elements of the peripheral nervous system. | | | Dendrites and axons are cytoplasmic extensions, or processes, that project from the cell body. |
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| | Neuroscience for Kids - In the News - Three Noble Neuroscientists |
| | Understanding how nerve cells communicate with each other and pass signals along has increased our understanding of how different drugs, such as those used to treat depression and other psychiatric disorders, work in the brain. | | | This research was "at the molecular level," meaning that he was studying how molecules of neurotransmitter affect nerve cells, especially at | | | The 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to three pioneering neuroscientists "for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system." Signal transduction is the process by which nerve cells communicate. |
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| | Nerve Cell Damage in Mammalian Brain after Exposure to Microwaves from GSM Mobile Phones |
| | Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) is a monthly journal of peer-reviewed research and news on the impact of the environment on human health. | | | Scattered neurons, not associated with albumin leakage between the neurons, were also positive. | | | Distribution of scores for the occurrence of "dark neurons" as a function of exposure condition. |
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| | Neuroscience for Kids - Neurons |
| | One axon extends centrally toward the spinal cord, the other axon extends toward the skin or muscle. | | | A neuron has many of the same "organelles," such as mitochondria, cytoplasm and a nucleus, as other cells in the body. | | | The human body is made up of trillions of cells. |
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| | Why Do Nerve Cell Bundles 'Camp' Near The Invasive Front Of Colon Cancer Tumors? |
| | Working in collaboration with Dr. Thomas Brabletz, a pathologist from the University of Erlangen in Germany and Dr. Peter Altevogt's group at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, Institute researchers analyzed a large number of colorectal cancer samples from human patients. | | | Avri Ben-Ze'ev's research is supported by the M.D. Moross Institute for Cancer Research; the Yad Abraham Center for Cancer Diagnostics and Therapy; the Jean-Jacques Brunschwig Fund for the Molecular Genetics of Cancer; the late Mrs. | | | Thanks to these abilities, L1 plays an important role in the process by which healthy nerve cells develop and find their way in the intercellular space. |
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050309135353.htm
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| | Preventing nerve cell death in ALS |
| | If we can prove that it’s the reason cells die, then it gives us a drug target where we can start to develop therapies.” | | | For instance, there are growth factors produced by muscle cells that nourish the neurons in the spinal cord that connect to the muscle cells. | | | ALS attacks the nerve cells that control the voluntary muscles throughout the body. |
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| | 00-001 (Herpes Simplex) |
| | Until this study, no one had observed and recorded that movement, said Bearer, associate professor in Brown’s Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. | | | The discovery of a single transport mechanism means that science has one target to hit with drug therapy, Bearer said. | | | Understanding how a virus travels within the nerve cell may lead to better treatment and perhaps cures for potentially lethal viral infections. |
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| | Exploring Time Gallery Display |
| | By slowing the action down 1,000 times, we can see the stuttering nature of individual pulses. | | | The models were then animated over time to show this function of a nerve cell. | | | Nerve impulses race through a network of nerve cells - carrying information to different parts of the body. |
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| | Cornell News: recording nerve cell signals |
| | The first demonstration of the new technique, reported as the cover story in the Jan. 28, 2004, issue of The Journal of Neuroscience, was in neurons of the lowly sea slug, Aplysia. | | | New optical recording technique can see millisecond nerve impulses in healthy and diseased brains, Cornell biophysicists report | | | These obstacles were overcome by using a less-toxic dye, a longer illumination wavelength and by limiting the duration and intensity of the laser pulses. |
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| | Nerve Cell Clones Repair Brain Damage |
| | Then we can ask ourselves what happens, in a fundamental sense, when something goes wrong. | | | Such stem cells might someday be used to treat strokes, spinal cord injuries, multiple sclerosis, genetic diseases, and other human disorders. | | | A tiny cluster of stem cells in a human embryo sires every tissue and organ -- heart and liver, blood and bones, skin and stomach. |
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| | Holistic Health Encyclopedia - G |
| | The term glaucoma describes a group of eye conditions involving increased pressure within the eyeball. | | | GLA may help in conditions in which the body's ability to make it from linoleic acid may be impaired. | | | Your lymphoctes are a type of immune system cell which is extremely important in removing viruses and cancer cells from the body. |
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| | Nerve definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms |
| | Peripheral Neuropathy - Medial information produced by doctors concerning peripheral neuropathy; includes description, causes, prevention, and treatment. | | | Nerve definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms | | | Nerve: A bundle of fibers that uses chemical and electrical signals to transmit sensory and motor information from one body part to another. |
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| | Energy Citations Database (ECD) - Energy and Energy-Related Bibliographic Citations |
| | 550301 -- Cytology-- Tracer Techniques; NERVE CELLS-- CELL DIFFERENTIATION;STEM CELLS-- BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; BIOLOGICAL PATHWAYS;BRAIN;CELL CYCLE;DNA;HYDRA;PRECURSOR;THYMIDINE;TRACER TECHNIQUES;TRITIUM COMPOUNDS | | | Availability information may be found in the Availability, Publisher, Research Organization, Resource Relation and/or Author (affiliation information) fields and/or via the "Full-text Availability" link. | | | Putative intermediates in the nerve cell differentiation pathway in hydra have properties of multipotent stem cells |
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| | USATODAY.com - Nerve cell mystery is unlocked |
| | Nerve fibers are the wiring in the brains and nervous systems of humans and animals. | | | Knowing how the brain or nervous system wires itself has important implications for treating disorders in which the nervous system is damaged, such as epilepsy and stroke, Bargmann says. | | | Thought processes and muscle "memory" are enabled by synapse formation. |
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| | Edinburgh Evening News - Health - Nerve cell breakthrough is world first |
| | The most likely immediate use for the artificially-created cells is to test out the effectiveness of new drugs. | | | Alzheimer's disease is a progressive, irreversible brain disorder with no known cause or cure, and Parkinson's a disorder of the nervous system. | | | SCIENTISTS in Edinburgh have created the world's first clutch of nerve stem cells in what could prove to be a major breakthrough in the race to treat diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. |
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| | Vestibulocochlear Nerve |
| | The vestibulocochlear nerve is a sensory nerve that conducts two special senses: hearing (audition) and balance (vestibular). | | | The peripheral parts of the eighth nerve travel a short distance to nerve cell bodies at the base of the corresponding sense organs. | | | From these peripheral sensory nerve cells the central part of the nerve then travels through the internal auditory meatus with the facial nerve. |
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| | Questionnaire: Possible Relationship of Heparan Sulfate and Nerve Cell Function |
| | The Possible Relationship of Heparan Sulfate and Nerve Cell Function to Neurological Clinical Symptoms in patients with Multiple Hereditary Exostoses | | | Have you been diagnosed with compression of nerves by exostoses in the affected areas? | | | Questionnaire: Possible Relationship of Heparan Sulfate and Nerve Cell Function |
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http://www.mhecoalition.com/HeparanSulfate_NerveCellFunction_Questionnaire.html
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| | News Release 11/2004: Researchers direct nerve-cell growth in real time using protein walls |
| | Shear and his laboratory group were able to identify photosensitizers such as flavin adenine dinucleotide that were effective without being toxic to cells. | | | “To get complex brain behavior, nerve cells need to integrate information they are receiving from other nerve cells in a very complex way that depends partly on where along the cell it physically contacts those signaling nerve cells,” said Jason Shear, the lead researcher from The University of Texas at Austin. | | | Shear’s laboratory also demonstrated that a wall could be used to guide and direct two nerve cells to interact at a specific site at the end of a wall. |
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| | FOCUS - October 11, 2002 - NEUROSCIENCE: Protector Protein Part of Nerve Cell Defense |
| | Conversely, promoting its expression might be useful to prevent or treat neurodegeneration. | | | They were originally discovered when cultured cells that were heated expressed the proteins at high levels and proved more resistant to other injuries and toxins. | | | Delivery of Hsp27 into developing cells could mimic the hardiness of adult cells: after infecting neurons of neonatal rats with an adenovirus expressing human Hsp27, more of the neurons survived when the sciatic nerve was damaged. |
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| | Nerve Cell 'Traffic Jam' May Trigger Alzheimer's - Health and Medical Information produced by doctors - MedicineNet.com |
| | Nerve Cell 'Traffic Jam' May Trigger Alzheimer's - Health and Medical Information produced by doctors - MedicineNet.com | | | He also stressed that any therapies based on these findings remain years away. | | | The findings "point out that this transport system [nerve cell signaling] gets disrupted in Alzheimer's," explained Dr. Bill Thies, vice president of medical and scientific affairs at the Alzheimer's Association. |
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| | Clam Embryo Study Shows Pollutant Mixture Adversely Affects Nerve Cell Development |
| | Demonstrating that clam embryos are affected by BCE paves the way for additional studies that may help explain how exposure to BCE affects human nerve cell development and how it might relate to neurological disorders. | | | They have also moved their studies to a new model system: the zebrafish, a vertebrate with more similarities to humans. | | | The study, which is reported in the January 2005 issue of Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology, is the first step toward understanding how exposure to BCE might affect human nerve cell development—knowledge that may one day provide clues about such neurological mysteries as autism spectrum disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. |
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/01/050124005538.htm
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| | 99-123 (Memory Mechanism) |
| | Huber and colleagues worked with tissue from the hippocampus region of the brain, separating synapses from their cell bodies. | | | Follow-up experiments, in which the activation of genes at the cell body was blocked, reinforced that the new proteins are synthesized directly at the synapses. | | | Memory mechanism found at nerve cell connections in the brain |
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| | Nerve Cell |
| | The cell body contains the necessary structures for keeping the neuron functional. | | | Many nerve cells are of the basic type illustrated above. | | | Tuzynski and Dixon offer some quantification of the sizes involved in these nerve cells. |
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http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/biology/nervecell.html
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