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Tissues > Nerve Tissue > Myelin Sheath > Ranvier's Nodes
... > Cells > Cellular Structures > Cell Membrane > Cell Membrane Structures > Myelin Sheath > Ranvier's Nodes
Nervous System > Neuroglia > Oligodendroglia > Myelin Sheath > Ranvier's Nodes
Cells > Neuroglia > Oligodendroglia > Myelin Sheath > Ranvier's Nodes
... > Nervous System > Neurons > Nerve Fibers > Nerve Fibers, Myelinated > Myelin Sheath > Ranvier's Nodes
... > Cells > Neurons > Nerve Fibers > Nerve Fibers, Myelinated > Myelin Sheath > Ranvier's Nodes
... > Nervous System > Peripheral Nervous System > Peripheral Nerves > Schwann Cells > Myelin Sheath > Ranvier's Nodes
Nervous System > Neuroglia > Schwann Cells > Myelin Sheath > Ranvier's Nodes
Cells > Neuroglia > Schwann Cells > Myelin Sheath > Ranvier's Nodes

Preferred term

Ranvier's Nodes  

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  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Nodes of Ranvier
  • Ranvier Nodes

Note

  • regular gaps in myelin sheath; A 11 qualif except /cytol; /genet permitted

Scope note

  • Regularly spaced gaps in the myelin sheaths of peripheral axons. Ranvier's nodes allow saltatory conduction, that is, jumping of impulses from node to node, which is faster and more energetically favorable than continuous conduction.

History note

  • 73(65)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D011901

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