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Nerve Tissue

Nerve tissue is the principal tissue of the nervous system, specialized for the generation, conduction, and integration of electrical and chemical signals. It is composed of two broad cell types: neurons, which receive, process, and transmit impulses through dendrites, cell bodies, and axons, and neuroglia, which su…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 6 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 9× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2694-1201 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Nerve tissue is the principal tissue of the nervous system, specialized for the generation, conduction, and integration of electrical and chemical signals. It is composed of two broad cell types: neurons, which receive, process, and transmit impulses through dendrites, cell bodies, and axons, and neuroglia, which support, insulate, nourish, and protect neurons and maintain the signalling environment. Functionally, nerve tissue underlies sensation, the control of movement, autonomic regulation, and higher processes such as memory and cognition, forming the central nervous system of the brain and spinal cord and the peripheral nerves that connect them to the body. Specialized neural and glial structures occur throughout the body, and nerve tissue can give rise to characteristic tumours of nerve-sheath and supporting cells, such as soft-tissue perineurioma, illustrating its distinct cellular identity. In the eye, retinal neural layers including the macular ganglion-cell layer represent nerve tissue whose thickness can be measured and may change under systemic or pharmacological influences. Nerve tissue is also implicated in broader disease processes, including adaptive changes within the central nervous system that affect the course of chronic illness, and its involvement in conditions such as neuralgia treated by surgical decompression. Study of nerve tissue spans cellular neuroscience, histopathology, and clinical neurology, linking microscopic structure to nervous-system function and disorder.

Research published in this journal

6 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2020

The Neoplastic Whorls-Soft Tissue Perineurioma

Bajaj AnubhaCorresponding author
MD. (Pathology) Panjab University, Department of Histopathology, A.B. Diagnostics, A-1, Ring Road, Rajouri Garden, New Delhi, 110027, India.
Clinical and Diagnostic Pathology doi:10.14302/issn.2689-5773.jcdp-20-3292

How this research is being cited

The 6 articles above have been cited 9 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Spine and Neuroscience (ISSN 2694-1201).

Journal editorial board
Barbara Poletti · Italy Ian James Martins · Australia Domenico Chirchiglia · Italy

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