Nerve cells or neurons can be found throughout your body. There are billions of them. It is responsible for carrying out information from one place to another in your body. There are three basic kinds of neurons, sensor, motor and interneurons. They all have different shapes, jobs and locations.
Sensory neurons, also known as unipolar neurons, are responsible for connecting the sense organs to the brain. The information that the sense organs get from the environment, goes through the sensory neurons to the brain.
Motor neurons, also known as multipolar neurons, are responsible for carrying out messages to muscles and glands that comes from the central nervous system (brain).
Interneurons or associative neurons (bipolar neurons) are responsible for carrying the information between the two other neurons (sensory and motor neurons).
Sensory neurons, also known as unipolar neurons, are responsible for connecting the sense organs to the brain. The information that the sense organs get from the environment, goes through the sensory neurons to the brain.
Motor neurons, also known as multipolar neurons, are responsible for carrying out messages to muscles and glands that comes from the central nervous system (brain).
Interneurons or associative neurons (bipolar neurons) are responsible for carrying the information between the two other neurons (sensory and motor neurons).
Even though the neurons have different shapes and sizes, they all have three main parts: the cell body, the dendrites and the axon.
The dendrites are tiny tube-like branches that comes from the cell body. Their job is receive messages from the environment and lead them to the cell body.The axon, also known as nerve fibre, is a tube-like extension that comes from the cell body as well. Its job is to send messages away from the cell body. At the end of the axon, branches can be found. And at the end of those branches are knobs that store and release messages to/from another neuron, muscle or gland.
The axons do not touch the dendrites of another neuron. Therefore there are tiny spaces between them, and those spaces are called synapses (synapse-singular). The messages are being transmitted through these spaces.
The dendrites are tiny tube-like branches that comes from the cell body. Their job is receive messages from the environment and lead them to the cell body.The axon, also known as nerve fibre, is a tube-like extension that comes from the cell body as well. Its job is to send messages away from the cell body. At the end of the axon, branches can be found. And at the end of those branches are knobs that store and release messages to/from another neuron, muscle or gland.
The axons do not touch the dendrites of another neuron. Therefore there are tiny spaces between them, and those spaces are called synapses (synapse-singular). The messages are being transmitted through these spaces.