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Neurons

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A neuron (American English), neurone (British English), or nerve cell, is a cell that is excitable, firing electric signals called action potentials across a neural network in the nervous system, mainly in the central nervous system, and helps to receive and conduct impulses. Neurons communicate with other cells via synapses, which are specialized connections that commonly use minute amounts of chemical neurotransmitters to pass the electric signal from the presynaptic neuron to the target cell through the synaptic gap.

photo sensitive cells that detect color

photoreceptor cells that can function in lower light better than cone cells.

specialized neuron in the cerebellum

projection neurons in the cerebral cortex and hippocampus

Interneurons (also called internuncial neurons, association neurons, connector neurons, or intermediate neurons) are neurons that are not specifically motor neurons or sensory neurons. Interneurons are the central nodes of neural circuits, enabling communication between sensory or motor neurons and the central nervous system (CNS). They play vital roles in reflexes, neuronal oscillations, and neurogenesis in the adult mammalian brain.

retinal ganglion cell

type of neuron located near the inner surface (ganglion cell layer) of the retina of the eye

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retina amacrine cell

type of neuron which has two extensions; specialized sensory neuron for the transmission of special senses. As such, they are part of the sensory pathways for smell, sight, taste, hearing and vestibular functions

hippocampal cell that plays a role in localization

retina bipolar cell

cerebellum basket cell

cerebellar neural cell

retina horizontal cell

olfactory receptor neuron

transduction cell within the olfactory system

unipolar neuron

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biological cell in the brain

olfactory bulb mitral cell

Chandelier cell

Martinotti cell

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Neurosecretion is the release of extracellular vesicles and particles from neurons, astrocytes, microglial and other cells of the central nervous system. These neurohormones, produced by neurosecretory cells, are normally secreted from nerve cells in the brain that then circulate into the blood. These neurohormones are similar to nonneural endocrine cells and glands in that they also regulate both endocrine and nonendocrine cells. Neurosecretion cells synthesize and package their product in vesicles and exocytose them at axon endings just as normal neurons do, but release their product farther

Type of interneuron