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  2. Myelin - Wikipedia

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    The main purpose of myelin is to increase the speed at which electrical impulses (known as action potentials) propagate along the myelinated fiber. In unmyelinated fibers, action potentials travel as continuous waves, but, in myelinated fibers, they "hop" or propagate by saltatory conduction. The latter is markedly faster than the former, at ...

  3. Node of Ranvier - Wikipedia

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    An action potential is a spike of both positive and negative ionic discharge that travels along the membrane of a cell. [15] The creation and conduction of action potentials represents a fundamental means of communication in the nervous system. Action potentials represent rapid reversals in voltage across the plasma membrane of axons.

  4. Action potential - Wikipedia

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    An action potential occurs when the membrane potential of a ... the autonomous nervous system are not, in general, myelinated. ... view of a neuronal fiber.

  5. Saltatory conduction - Wikipedia

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    Myelinated axons only allow action potentials to occur at the unmyelinated nodes of Ranvier that occur between the myelinated internodes. It is by this restriction that saltatory conduction propagates an action potential along the axon of a neuron at rates significantly higher than would be possible in unmyelinated axons (150 m/s compared from 0.5 to 10 m/s). [1]

  6. File:Propagation of action potential along myelinated nerve ...

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    Image description: Schematic representation of the action potential propagation through myelinated nerve fiber of peripheral nervous system. From axon hillock of neuron body (soma) action potential propagates from one unmyelinated fiber part to the next one. The unmyelinated parts of the nerve fiber are nodes of Ranvier.

  7. Axon - Wikipedia

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    The action potential is the final electrical step in the integration of synaptic messages at the scale of the neuron. [5] Extracellular recordings of action potential propagation in axons has been demonstrated in freely moving animals. While extracellular somatic action potentials have been used to study cellular activity in freely moving ...

  8. Myelinogenesis - Wikipedia

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    Myelinogenesis is the formation and development of myelin sheaths in the nervous system, typically initiated in late prenatal neurodevelopment and continuing throughout postnatal development. [1] Myelinogenesis continues throughout the lifespan to support learning and memory via neural circuit plasticity as well as remyelination following ...

  9. Nerve conduction velocity - Wikipedia

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    Nerve impulses are extremely slow compared to the speed of electricity, where the electric field can propagate with a speed on the order of 50–99% of the speed of light; however, it is very fast compared to the speed of blood flow, with some myelinated neurons conducting at speeds up to 120 m/s (432 km/h or 275 mph) [citation needed].