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Nervous tissue
Components:
•Cell body- nucleus and most other organelles are housed
•axon - responsible for moving nerve impulses from cell body to target cell which could be a neuron muscle cells or a gland (cell communication)
•dendrites -short and highly branched they receive msgs from axons of other neurons and bring impulses to the cell body
2 main cells :
•neurons -cells that send and receive msgs
•neurological cells - perform various supportive functions (undergo mitosis)
Location :
•brain
•spinal cord
•nerves
Other info :
•most mature neurons are amniotic they don't undergo mitosis
•unique EMC -contains few protein fibers and instead is mostly made up of ground substances with unique proteoglycans
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