how dendrites work - Biology - Neural Control and Coordination

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how dendrites work?

Anasua Ghosh · Accepted Answer

Dendrites are the branched projections of a neuron that act to
propagate the electrochemical stimulation received from other
neural cells to the cell body, or soma, of the neuron from which
the dendrites project Electrical stimulation is transmitted onto
dendrites by upstream neurons (usually their axons) via synapses
which are located at various points throughout the dendritic tree
Dendrites play a critical role in integrating these synaptic inputs
and in determining the extent to which action potentials are
produced by the neuron The structure and branching of a neuron's
dendrites, as well as the availability and variation of
voltage-gated ion conductance, strongly influences how the neuron
integrates the input from other neurons This integration is both
temporal, involving the summation of stimuli that arrive in rapid
succession, as well as spatial, entailing the aggregation of
excitatory and inhibitory inputs from separate branches