{"id":3690,"date":"2017-12-22T18:10:56","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T20:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en-mol.icb.usp.br\/?page_id=3690"},"modified":"2026-01-11T17:42:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T20:42:28","slug":"9-2-nervous-tissue","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mol-en.icb.usp.br\/index.php\/9-2-nervous-tissue\/","title":{"rendered":"9-2 Nervous tissue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"su-row\">\n<div class=\"su-column su-column-size-1-2\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n<strong>CELLS OF THE NERVOUS TISSUE<\/strong> <\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"su-row\">\n<div class=\"su-column su-column-size-1-2\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\nNeurons<\/p>\n<p>From the point of view of their structure and the organization of their extensions, the neurons can be classified as:<br \/>\n<strong>Unipolar neurons <\/strong>\u00a0have a cell body and one axon &#8211; axons are shown in blue in the drawings. They are not very frequent and constitute, for example, sensory cells of the retina and olfactory mucosa.<br \/>\n<strong>Bipolar neurons <\/strong> &#8211; have a cell body, one dendrite (dendrites in red in the drawings), and one axon. They are found mainly in sensory structures such as retina, olfactory mucosa.<br \/>\n<strong>Pseudounipolar neurons<\/strong> &#8211; have a cell body one extension which has two parts. One behaves as a dendrite in and as an axon in the other portion. A typical example of this type is found in the neurons of the sensory ganglia of the spinal cord, responsible for conducting nerve impulses of touch, pressure, pain, heat, and cold towards the central nervous system.<br \/>\n<strong>Multipolar neurons<\/strong> have a cell body, several dendrites, and one axon. They are the majority of neurons in the nervous tissue and are the predominant type in the central nervous system.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\" https:\/\/mol-en.icb.usp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/9-2-en.jpg \" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mol-en.icb.usp.br\/index.php\/9-3-nervous-tissue\/\">NEXT PAGE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mol-en.icb.usp.br\/index.php\/9-1-nervous-tissue\/\">PREVIOUS PAGE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mol-en.icb.usp.br\/index.php\/9-0-nervous-tissue\/\">MENU OF THIS CHAPTER<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3690","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mol-en.icb.usp.br\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mol-en.icb.usp.br\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mol-en.icb.usp.br\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mol-en.icb.usp.br\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mol-en.icb.usp.br\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3690"}],"version-history":[{"count":66,"href":"https:\/\/mol-en.icb.usp.br\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19401,"href":"https:\/\/mol-en.icb.usp.br\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3690\/revisions\/19401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mol-en.icb.usp.br\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}