Action Potential & Graded Potentials
Dr. Matt and Dr. Mike's Medical Podcast
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Do You Know How to Speed Up Your Signal?
In your central nervous system, spinal cord brain, it's an oligodendrocyte that does that for you. These are the cells that do the wrappings. Now, by doing this wrap in, what it actually does for you is speed up the length of a medium nerve going from your fingertips up into your spinal cord. That is how far... A meter? A quarter meter. A meter distance of one axon. One axon. Long way to go.
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