Many Members: Chemical Messengers of the Nervous System

And if they were all one member, where were the body? But now are they many members, yet but one body. I Corinthians 12:19-20 In a previous article we examined a nerve cell and considered two basic parts of it -- the dendrites and the axon. We recall that the dendrites are the long tentacle-like branches at the beginning of the nerve cell, whose function it is to receive stimuli from various sources. The axon is the insulated "wire" that transmits electrical signals from their point of origin...