The Nerve Impulse How do living things transmit electrical signals with equipment composed largely of water? Although there is disagreement on some features of the process, much has been learned ...

Between impulses the transmitter molecules are rapidly removed from the synaptic cleft to prevent continuous stimulation of postsynaptic neurons. There are two types of removal: Re-uptake – the ...

How does one nerve cell transmit the nerve impulse to another cell? Electron microscopy and other methods show that it does so by means of special extensions that deliver a squirt of transmitter ...

OUR knowledge of impulse patterns in the different types of afferent nerve fibres is based chiefly on animal experiments. It is true that Hensel and Boman 1 recorded action potentials from single ...

muscle cells require energy for contracting and nerve cells require energy for transmitting nerve impulses. The energy is supplied by food that the cells take in. The break down of food to release ...

leads to disruption of the normal process of transmitting nerve impulses to and from the brain. This can result in a whole range of often unpredictable symptoms from loss of sensation, pins and ...