{"id":70,"date":"2016-11-13T18:17:37","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T18:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/?p=70"},"modified":"2016-11-16T04:17:38","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T04:17:38","slug":"axon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/2016\/11\/13\/axon\/","title":{"rendered":"Axon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<strong>axon<\/strong> is the long projection out from the <a href=\"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/2016\/11\/13\/soma\/\">soma<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/2016\/11\/13\/neuron\/\">neuron<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/2016\/11\/13\/action-potential\/\">action potential<\/a> travels along this path to transmit the neural signal. The axon is covered in <a href=\"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/2016\/11\/14\/voltage-gated-ion-channel\/\">voltage-gated ion channels<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/2016\/11\/13\/sodium-potassium-pump\/\">sodium-potassium pumps<\/a>.\u00a0Action potentials will travel faster if the axon is <a href=\"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/2016\/11\/13\/myelin-sheaths\/\">myelinated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-71 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5864\/2016\/11\/Neuron-with-labels-300x148.jpg\" alt=\"neuron-with-labels\" width=\"384\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5864\/2016\/11\/Neuron-with-labels-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5864\/2016\/11\/Neuron-with-labels-360x177.jpg 360w, https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5864\/2016\/11\/Neuron-with-labels.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.6667px\">(&#8220;Neuron anatomy&#8221;, 2016)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/glossary-of-terms\/\">Back to Glossary.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0axon is the long projection out from the soma of the neuron. The action potential travels along this path to transmit the neural signal. The axon is covered in voltage-gated ion channels\u00a0and sodium-potassium pumps.\u00a0Action potentials will travel faster if the <a href=\"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/2016\/11\/13\/axon\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":734,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/734"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}