Unipolar neuron

Short description: CLASSIFICATION BASED UPON THE NUMBER OF POLES

Unipolar neuron

1: Unipolar neuron

Example of several unipolar neurons from a nerve ganglion of a velvet worm (a primitive arthropod). The neurons were stained for serotonin immunoreactivity, and photographed using a confocal microscope, with multiple images overlaid and color-coded according to depth. Arrows mark the peripherally located cell bodies of several neurons, whose neurites extend into the central neuropil (np), where their complex ramifications are indiscernible. Scale bar: 50 micrometres.[1]

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Latin| neuron unipolare
Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy

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A unipolar neuron is a neuron in which only one process, called a neurite, extends from the cell body. The neurite then branches to form dendritic and axonal processes. Most neurons in the central nervous systems of invertebrates, including insects, are unipolar.[2] The cell bodies of invertebrate unipolar neurons are often located around the edges of the neuropil, in the so-called cell-body rind.[3]

Most neurons in the central nervous systems of vertebrates, including mammals, are multipolar.[4] In multipolar neurons, multiple processes extend from the cell body including dendrites and axons. Some neurons in the vertebrate brain have a unipolar morphology: a notable example is the unipolar brush cell, found in the cerebellum and granule region of the dorsal cochlear nucleus.

A third morphological class, bipolar neurons, extend just one axon and dendritic process from the cell body. Examples of bipolar neurons include most invertebrate sensory neurons and bipolar cells of the vertebrate retina.

Some vertebrate sensory neurons are classified as pseudo-unipolar. Pseudo-unipolar neurons initially develop as bipolar cells, but at some point the two processes that extend from the cell body fuse to form a single neurite.[4] The axon then splits into two branches. Sensory neurons with cell bodies in the dorsal root ganglia of the vertebrate spinal cord are pseudo-unipolar: one branch projects to the periphery (to sensory receptors in the skin, joints, and muscle), the other to the spinal cord.

## References

1. ↑ Source: Mayer and Harzsch, BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007.
2. ↑ The Oxford handbook of invertebrate neurobiology. Byrne, John H.. New York, NY. 2019. ISBN 978-0-19-045675-7. OCLC 1040078331. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1040078331.
3. ↑ Strausfeld, Nicholas James (2012). Arthropod brains : evolution, functional elegance, and historical significance. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-04633-7. OCLC 778852029. http://worldcat.org/oclc/778852029.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Kandel, Eric R. (2000). Principles of neural science. Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-8385-7701-6. OCLC 541621060. http://worldcat.org/oclc/541621060.

* Martin, John Harry (2003). Neuroanatomy. McGraw-Hill Professional. ISBN 0-07-138183-X. https://books.google.com/books?id=OUC4igr3O4sC.

* Bullock, Theodore H.; G. Adrian Horridge (1965). Structure and Function in the Nervous Systems of Invertebrates: Volume II. W. H. Freeman. https://books.google.com/books?id=865qAAAAMAAJ.

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Nervous tissue

CNS|

| Tissue Types|

* Grey matter
* White matter
* Projection fibers
* Association fiber
* Commissural fiber
* Lemniscus
* Nerve tract
* Decussation
* Neuropil
* Meninges

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Cell Types|

| Neuronal|

* Pyramidal
* Purkinje
* Granule
* Spindle
* Interneuron

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Glial|

| insulating:|

* Myelination: Oligodendrocyte

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other|

* Astrocyte
* Ependymal cells
* Tanycyte
* Microglia

PNS|

| General|

* Dorsal
* Root
* Ganglion
* Ramus
* Ventral
* Root
* Ramus
* Ramus communicans
* Gray
* White
* Autonomic ganglion (Preganglionic nerve fibers
* Postganglionic nerve fibers)
* Nerve fascicle
* Funiculus

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Connective tissues|

* Epineurium
* Perineurium
* Endoneurium

Neuroglia|

* Myelination: Schwann cell
* Neurilemma
* Myelin incisure
* Node of Ranvier
* Internodal segment
* Satellite glial cell

Neurons/
nerve fibers|

| Parts|

| Soma|

* Axon hillock

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Axon|

* Telodendron
* Axon terminals
* Axoplasm
* Axolemma
* Neurofibril/neurofilament

Dendrite|

*     * Nissl body
* Dendritic spine
* Apical dendrite/Basal dendrite

Types|

* Bipolar
* Unipolar
* Pseudounipolar
* Multipolar
* Interneuron
* Renshaw

Afferent nerve fiber/
Sensory neuron|

* GSA
* GVA
* SSA
* SVA
* fibers
* Ia or Aα
* Ib or Golgi or Aα
* II or Aβ and Aγ
* III or Aδ or fast pain
* IV or C or slow pain

Efferent nerve fiber/
Motor neuron|

* GSE
* GVE
* SVE
* Upper motor neuron
* Lower motor neuron
* α motorneuron
* β motorneuron
* γ motorneuron

Termination|

| Synapse|

* Electrical synapse/Gap junction
* Chemical synapse
* Synaptic vesicle
* Active zone
* Postsynaptic density
* Autapse
* Ribbon synapse
* Neuromuscular junction

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Sensory receptors|

* Meissner's corpuscle
* Merkel nerve ending
* Pacinian corpuscle
* Ruffini ending
* Muscle spindle
* Free nerve ending
* Nociceptor
* Olfactory receptor neuron
* Photoreceptor cell
* Hair cell
* Taste bud

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