afferent
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Once the afferent arterioles are constricted, blood flow into the nephrons stops.
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Outer hair cells connect to only 10 percent of the afferent neurons, and each afferent neuron innervates many hair cells.
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They constrict the afferent arterioles, causing the flow of blood into the nephrons to stop.
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Stimulation of the sensory receptor activates the associated afferent neuron, which carries information about the stimulus to the central nervous system.
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A message along a nerve to a ganglion cell is an afferent impression, from a cell to a muscle or other external end is an efferent impression.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
