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Neuroscience For Kids

Sidewalk Cells

Neurons have many different shapes and sizes. They can even be found as you walk down the street. The photographs below show some "neurons" made from cracks in the sidewalk. Can you identify these "cells" as bipolar neurons, pseudounipolar neurons and multipolar neurons? Do you see the cell body, axon and dendrites?

bipolar neuron

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