Myelinated Fibers and Saltatory Conduction in the Shrimp(Xu et al.)

The Fastest Impulse Conduction in the Animal KingdomIn 1961, neurobiologists found that the conduction velocity of the nerve impulse in the giant nerve fiber of the Penaeus shrimp abdominal nerve cord was over 200 m/s, the highest speed of information transmission ever observed in the animal kingdom. The peculiar myelin sheath with its unique nodal structure and the electrical properties of the nerve fibers of the shrimp have continued to be ...
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