GENERAL ANATOMY
NERVOUS SYSTEM
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Tissue that is responsible for lining, covering, and glandular tissue
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Tissue responsible for protecting, supporting, and binding together other body tissues
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Tissues that contracts and shortens to produce movement
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Tissue that receives and conducts electrochemical impulses from one part of the body to another
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Detailed explanation-1: -Neurons. Neurons, or nerve cells, carry out the functions of the nervous system by conducting nerve impulses. They are highly specialized and amitotic.
Detailed explanation-2: -Nervous tissue is characterized as being excitable and capable of sending and receiving electrochemical signals that provide the body with information. Two main classes of cells make up nervous tissue: the neuron and neuroglia (Figure 1).
Detailed explanation-3: -The most prominent cell of the nervous tissue, the neuron, is characterized mainly by its ability to receive stimuli and respond by generating an electrical signal, known as an action potential, which can travel rapidly over great distances in the body.
Detailed explanation-4: -Nervous tissue contains two major cell types, neurons and glial cells. Neurons are the cells responsible for communication through electrical signals.
Detailed explanation-5: -The brain and spinal cord (the CNS) function as the control center. They receive data and feedback from the sensory organs and from nerves throughout the body, process the information, and send commands back out.