Neogene- Increasingly cool, dry climate; grasslands spread; modern families of mammals and birds; first apes

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Bipolar neurons have two specialized processes: a dendrite that carries information to the cell and an axon that transmits information from the cell.

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Pseudo-unipolar cells develops, a single process splits into two, both of which function as axons one going to skin or muscle and another to the spinal cord.

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Multipolar cells have one axon and many dendrites.

Motor neurons

Hippocampal pyramidal cells with dendrites in the apex and base

Cerebellum Purkinje cells with an extensive dendritic tree in a single plane

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In the peripheral nervous system, myelin is compacted when the extracellular portions of a membrane protein called protein zero (P0 ) lock to the extracellular portions of P0 in the apposing membrane

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In the CNS of mammals, most neurons are myelinated, but the cells that form the myelin are oligodendrocytes rather than Schwann cells

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In multiple sclerosis, a crippling autoimmune disease, patchy destruction of myelin occurs in the CNS