Neurons

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sensory sheath chemicals receptor stimulated axon
synapses diffuse impulses speed motor specific
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Neurons transmit electrical when they are .

In neurons the cytoplasm forms a long fibre surrounded by a cell membrane called an .

Some axons are surrounded by a fatty , which insulates the neuron from neighbouring cells and increases the of a nerve impulse.

There are gaps between neurons called .

At the end of a sensory neuron an impulse triggers the release of into the synapse, which across and bind to molecules on the membrane of a motor neuron.

The receptor molecules only bind to chemicals, triggering a nerve impulse in the motor neuron.

  

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