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Glial cells are responsible for transmitting information throughout the brain.


Myelin stimulates an action potential, and this sends a signal out through a dendrite; the strength of the signal is more important than the connection.


Neurons do not touch one another; there is a small gap between them called a synaptic cleft.


Axons touch other axons, and dendrites touch other dendrites; the neuron itself does not matter.
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5 years ago
Quote from: Catracho (5 years ago)
Neurons do not touch one another; there is a small gap between them called a synaptic cleft.

This is correct.

Neurons do not touch one another. Instead, a neuron sends its messages across a gap called a synapse by releasing neurotransmitters.

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