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A delta fiber

A delta fiber not labeled, but fibers terminate at Rexed lamina I, labeled at upper left.
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A delta fibers (Aδ) are the fibers which convey fast pain information.

They are much faster than the C fibers because they are myelinated, but they are much thinner than other "A" caliber nerve fibers, so they conduct signals more slowly than the other fibers of that class.

The fibers terminate at Rexed lamina I.

External links

http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/psych396/student2006/the_biology_of_pain_mac_version/functions.html

v • d • e Histology: nervous tissue
Neurons (gray matter)	soma - axon (axon hillock, axoplasm, axolemma, neurofibril/neurofilament) dendrite (Nissl body, dendritic spine, apical dendrite, basal dendrite) types: bipolar - pseudounipolar - multipolar - pyramidal - Purkinje - granule
Afferent nerve/Sensory nerve/Sensory neuron	GSA - GVA - SSA - SVA - fibers (Ia, Ib or Golgi, II or Aβ, III or Aδ or fast pain, IV or C or slow pain)
Efferent nerve/Motor nerve/Motor neuron	GSE - GVE - SVE - Upper motor neuron - Lower motor neuron (α motorneuron, γ motorneuron)
Synapses	neuropil - synaptic vesicle - neuromuscular junction - electrical synapse - Interneuron (Renshaw)
Sensory receptors	Meissner's corpuscle - Merkel nerve ending - Pacinian corpuscle - Ruffini ending - Muscle spindle Free nerve ending Olfactory receptor neuron - Photoreceptor cell - Hair cell - Taste bud
Glial cells	Astrocyte (Radial glia) - Oligodendrocyte - Ependymal cells (Tanycytes) - Microglia
Myelination (white matter)	CNS: Oligodendrocyte PNS: Schwann cell - Neurolemma - Nodes of Ranvier/Internode - Schmidt-Lanterman incisures
Related connective tissues	epineurium - perineurium - endoneurium - nerve fascicle - meninges