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Title: Nerve Authors: Venue: Wikipedia Year: unknown Canonical: wiki:nerve URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerve Collector: wikipedia OA: true ABSTRACT A nerve is an enclosed, cable-like bundle of nerve fibers. Nerves have historically been considered the basic units of the peripheral nervous system. A nerve provides a common pathway for the electrochemical nerve impulses called action potentials that are transmitted along each of the axons to peripheral organs or, in the case of sensory nerves, from the periphery back to the central nervous system. Each axon is an extension of an individual neuron, along with other supportive cells such as some Schwann cells that coat the axons in myelin.