author: michael a paradiso

... analogy with a scaffolding , we do not mean that the cytoskele- ton is static . On the contrary , elements of the ... Microtubules . Measuring 20 nm in diameter , microtubules are big and run longitudinally down neurites . A microtubule ...

... action potential is generated. The positive charge that enters during the ... make up the human brain comes to 21,250 m2— roughly the size of three soccer fields ... Conduction saltatory conduction (p. 104) Action Potentials, Axons, and ...