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How are Nerve cells specialised?

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It is specialised by being a long, thin cell that enables it to carry electrical messages (nerve impulses) around the body through travelling along the "axons" (thin, long bit in middle knows as "nerve fibres") from your brain or spinal cord to one of the muscles. Once the impulse gets to the muscle, the muscle contracts. =)

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