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Nerve impulses

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Nerve impulses.


  1. Can travel in one direction only in a nerve fibre.
  2. Can travel in one direction only across a synapse.
  3. Travel at the speed of an electric current.
  4. Correspond in duration to that of the nerve refractory period.
  5. Can be transmitted at higher frequencies in autonomic than in somatic nerves.

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A. False In axons, impulses travel in both directions from a point of electrical stimulation.

B. True The transmitter vesicles are in the pre-synaptic terminal.

C. False Impulse propagation is a different process and much slower than electrical current.

D. True Nerves cannot be re-excited while their membrane polarity is reversed.

E. False The shorter refractory periods in somatic nerves allow higher frequencies.

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