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9 Cards in this Set
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Where are the ventricles located?
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Deep within cerebral white matter
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What are the ventricles filled?
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Cerebrospinal Fluid
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What cells produce CSF?
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Ependymal cells of the choroid plexus found in all ventricles except for the aquaduct.
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Describe the flow of CSF
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Flows from lateral ventricles into third ventricle, then the fourth ventricle9via the cerebral aquaduct) into the sub arachnoid space via 3 foramina
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Describe the contents of grey matter
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neuronal cell bodies, dendrites, and unmyelinated and myelinated axons, glial cells (astroglia and oligodendrocytes) and capillaries
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How are the contents of white matter different from grey?
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Does not contain cell bodies, contains myelinated axons that connect various grey matter areas of the brain to each other and carry impulses bxn neurons.
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What does the color difference arise from?
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Myelin (lipid)
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Where is grey matter found?
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Found on surface of cerebral hemispheres (cortex) and cerebellum, and spinal grey matter
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Where is white matter found?
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Forms the bulk of the deep parts of the brain and superficially in the spinal cord
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