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164 Cards in this Set
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Ganglia are clusters of cell bodies outside the brain or |
Spinal cord |
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Ependymal cells secrete and circulate |
CSF |
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White matter is myelinated |
Axons |
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Grey matter is neuronal cell |
Bodies |
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Cell bodies are also called |
Soma |
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All thinking takes places in the grey matter of the |
Cerebrum |
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White matter does not involve |
Thinking |
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White matter only sends and receives |
signals |
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All the information that the nervous system receives from the outside world and what’s going on in your body is called |
Sensation |
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Receptor cells detect stimulus and send it to the brain or spinal cords on |
Afferent neurons |
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The brain evaluates information from the afferent neurons is called |
Intergration |
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The brain evaluates information from the afferent neurons is called |
Intergration |
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Any conscious experience anything with think about takes place in the brain portion of the |
Central nervous system |
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Integration happens after we process information in the |
Brain |
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When the nervous system sends nerves out to organs or glands of the body |
Motor output |
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Motor output carries information out on |
efferent neurons |
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They process in formation from afferent neurons and send information to efferent neurons |
Interneurons |
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Efferent neurons carry information to an effector which is a |
organ or gland |
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An effector is a structure or organ that changes its activity in some way when it is signaled by |
Efferent neuron |
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Dendrites are the short processes coming off neurons they receive |
Information |
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Axons send |
Information |
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Inside a nerve are groups of |
axons |
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Small cells that surround the neurons are referred to as |
glial cells |
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Glial cells exist to support the |
Neuron |
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Neuroglia are much smaller than neurons and are 50 times as Numerous as |
Neorons |
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The afferent and efferent spinal nerves are found in the |
Spinal cord |
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What excites neurons |
neurotransmitter |
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What spreads across a cell when a neuron gets excited |
electrical charge |
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In neurons, action potentials go down |
axons |
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the purpose of the action potential is get the neuron to release |
neurotransmitter |
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How does a neurotransmitter get across the synaptic cleft |
difussion |
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the axon releases neurotranssimetter it travels acroos the synaptic cleft and lands on another neuron and attaches to a |
ION channel |
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Tracts are a collection of |
Axons |
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Axons that do similar things are grouped together in a |
tract |
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PNS is everything outside the |
Brain and spinal cord |
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Nerves are the same things as tracts, which are a group of similar functioning axons found inside the brain and spinal cord, except we find nerves outside the Brain and spinal cord in the |
PNS |
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Nerves that exit the spinal cord from intervertebral foramen between the vertebra are called |
spinal nerves |
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nerves the come out of the brain through the foramen in the skull are called |
Cranial nerves |
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ganglia are clusters of cell bodies in the |
PNS |
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Dorsal and ventral roots are axons going in and out of the vertebral column |
vertebral column |
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Nerve roots are what will become nerves when they exit the vertebral column or |
sacrum |
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Sensory receptors are cells that detect stimulus in the |
PNS |
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Sensory information we are consciously aware of or have conscious control over is the part of the |
Somatic nervous system |
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The five senses are all part of the |
Somatic nervous system |
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We can consciously move an arm and breath cause they involve muscle contraction, which is a part of the somatic nervous system and is controlled by the |
Somatic motor neurons |
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Sensory information we are not consciously aware of is part of the |
Autonomic nervous system |
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Information that comes from inside our bodies is monitored by the |
Autonomic nervous system |
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expanding contracting of smooth muscle, beating of cardiac muscle and glandular activity are all a part of the and monitored by the. |
Autonomic nervous system |
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The two branches of the autonomic nervous system are the sympathetic and the |
parasympathetic |
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Sympathetic is the |
fight or flight |
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the parasympathetic is |
resting |
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Autonomic nervous system effectors are controlled by the |
Autonomic motor neurons |
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Muscle cells exhibit 5 distinct |
characteristics |
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Excitability is a characteristic of a neuron that is triggered by |
neurotransmitters and sensory receptors |
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Conductivity is a characteristic of a neuron that is triggered by graded action potential. It is the ability to |
conduct electricity |
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Secretion is a characteristic of a neuron that is triggered by Excitatory & inhibitory neurotransmitter it is used to get the cell to secrete |
neurotransmitter |
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Extreme longevity characteristic of a neuron because the are with us from |
fetus to old age |
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Amitotic is a characteristic of a neuron that because most neurons lack the ability to |
under go mitosis |
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A neuron is the structural and functional part of the |
nervous system |
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functionally the neurons do the work of the |
nervous system |
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Structurally, the nervous system is |
neurons |
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What the brain,, spinal cord and nerves do are based on what is happening with the |
neurons |
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Neurons have a cell body that contain |
organelles |
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in the cytoplasm of a neuron cell body there are ribosomes that form clusters called |
chromatophilic substances |
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A chromatophilic substance is chunks of Rough ER with ribosomes all over it referred to as |
Nissl bodies |
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another name for chromatophilic substance is |
nissl bodies |
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structures that branch off the cell bodies are |
dendrites |
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the purpose of the dendrites is to receive information in the form of |
neurotransmitter |
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when a neurotransmitter lands on a neuron it is landing on the |
dendrites |
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Ligand-gated ION channels are found on the |
dendrites |
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the axon hillock is not part of the axon, it is part of the |
cell body |
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the large process that comes off the cell body, in the brain and spinal cord, we call a grouping of them tracts |
Axon |
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The cell membrane on the outside of the axon is called the |
Axolemma |
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cytoplasm in the axon is called the |
axoplasm |
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Bundles of intermediary filaments found in the axon that give the axon tensile strength. |
neurofibrils |
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the purpose of Neurofibrils is to give axons tensile strength |
Neurofibrils |
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another name for telodendria is: |
Axon terminals |
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telodendria are found at the ends of the |
axons |
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An axon can branch and send a piece of itself to multiple cells the branch is called an |
axon collateral |
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axon collaterals can branch and stimulate |
multiple cells |
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the tip of the axon terminal is the |
synaptic knoob |
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anything the axon needs has to be transported from the cell body to the axon that type of transport is referred to as |
anterograde transport |
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movement of materials from cell body to synaptic end bulbs |
anterograde transport |
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cell body is the site of protein synthesis (Nissl body). Neurotransmitters & repair protein that reside in the cell body and need to be shipped through the axon to the axon terminal and into the synaptic end bulb by |
anterograde transport |
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from synaptic end bulbs to cell body |
Retrograde transport |
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Axonal transport system moves substances produced in |
cell body |
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Slow axonal flow moves at the speed of
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1-3mm/day |
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Slow axonal flow are used For developing or regenerating |
axons |
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Slow axonal flow replenishes |
axoplasm |
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Fast axonal flow moves at a speed of |
200-400mm/day |
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Fast axonal flow Transport transports proteins and organelles in either direction along |
microtubules |
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regenerating axons, growing the axons, maturing the axons are a function of? |
slow axonal transports |
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microtubules inside the axons work with motor proteins that use ATP to push things along the microtubules a lot |
faster |
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any organells that need to be shipped back and fourth between the cell body (neuron) and the synaptic end bulb will use |
fast axonal transport |
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all the neurons in the brain and spinal cord are called |
multipolar |
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A bipolar neuron has two poles one side dendrites the other has the axon |
bibpolar |
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Found in the retina, the inner ear and olfactory area of the |
brain |
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Located next to the vertebral column in ganglia |
unipolar |
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clusters of cell bodies outside the brain or spinal cord |
ganglia |
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ganglia are sensory neuron cell bodies that are |
unipolar |
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Dendrites in the PNS fuse into a single dendrite that turns into an axon. Only the axon attaches to a cell body made it is |
unipolar |
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what type of neuron is involved in sensation |
unipolar |
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Purkinje cells are found in the |
cerebellum |
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the exterior of the cerebrum is the |
cerebral cortex |
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Sensory (afferent) neurons sense information and send it to the |
CNS |
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Motor (efferent) neurons motor nerve impulses to |
muscles or glands |
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interneourons (association) neurons connect sensory and |
motor neurons |
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A nerve is a collection of |
neurons |
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a collection of axons is a |
fascicle |
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The outer layer of dense irregular connective tissue that wraps the nerve is called? |
epineurium |
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the layer of dense irregular connective tissue around each fascicle is called? |
perinerium |
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the layer of areolar connective tissue that wraps each individual axon |
endonerium |
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you can classify a nerve based on where they |
exit |
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If a nerve exits the skull it is a |
cranial nerve |
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If a nerve exits the vertebral colomn, it is a |
spinal nerve |
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A nerve that carries sensory information in and motor information out is a |
mixed nerve |
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cranial nerves can be |
sensory, motor or mixed |
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all spinal nerves are |
mixed |
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Cells that support the neuron |
neuroglia |
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smaller than neurons |
neuroglia |
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neuroglia can undergo mitosis that makes them |
miotic |
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Because of its miotic ability,Neuroglia can turn into a cancer called |
glioma |
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astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, microglia & ependymal cells are neuroglia cells found in the |
CNS |
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Schwann cells and satellite cells are neuroglia cells found in the |
PNS |
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Astrocytes are star-shaped cells physically smaller than a |
neuron
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physically support nervous tissue |
astrocytes |
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Guide development of young neurons |
astrocytes |
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help in the formation of synapses and learning |
astrocytes |
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every time you learn something new, you either strengthen or weaken a |
Synapse |
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where two cells come together a |
Synapse |
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Astrocytes help in the growing of new dendrites and axon collaterals to learn something |
new |
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these will grow when a person is learning something a new |
dendrites and axons |
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chemically protects the brain and spinal cord |
astrocytes |
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help in removing neurotransmitter |
astrocytes |
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branched cells that form myelin sheaths around CNS axons |
oligodendrocytes |
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can mylinate multiple axons |
oligodendrocytes |
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Form epithelial mb lining cerebral cavity & central canal |
Ependymal cell |
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Produce CSF |
Ependymal cell |
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Cilia AND microvilli on apicalsurface facing lumen ofcentral canal |
Ependymal cell |
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phagocytic Monitors health of neurons (remove dead) Monocyte derivative |
Microglial cel |
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Schwann cells & Satellite cells are found in the |
PNS |
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Surround single axon of PNS (myelin sheath) |
Schwann cells |
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May also enclose many unmyelinated axons |
Schwann cells |
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Flat cells surrounding neuronal cell bodies in peripheral ganglia |
Satellite cells |
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electrically insulates PNS cell bodies |
Satellite cells |
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Regulates nutrient and cell bodies in ganglia |
Satellite cells |
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myelinates and insulates PNS in axons |
Satellite cells |
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Allows for faster action potential propagation along an axon in the PNS |
Satellite cells |
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PNS mylination: What step is this? Schwann cell envelops an axon |
Step 1 |
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PNS mylination: What step is this? Schwann cell encloses an axon w/ plasma membrane |
Step 2 |
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PNS mylination: What step is this? Concentric layers of mb make up myelin sheath |
Step 3 |
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PNS mylination: What step is this? Schwann cell cytoplasm & nucleus forms the outermost layer called neurolemma |
Step 4 |
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creates a regeneration tube that allows your peripheral axons to grow back through it. |
neurolemma |
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If an axon is to damage in the PNS, will it be able to regenerate? |
No |
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If an axon is unmylinated in the PNS it only gets the it is missing the mylen sheath but still has the |
neurolemma |
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PNS Unmylinated: What step is this Axons are wrapped in neurilemma by Schwann cell |
Step 1 |
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PNS Unmylinated: What step is this axons are enveloped by the neurolemmocytes but there are no myelin sheaths |
Step 2 |
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Which neuroglia cells are found in the brain and spinal cord can mylinate multiple axons but don't have a neurolemma and no regeneration. |
oligodendrcytes |
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which neuroglia cells can only mylinate one axon, the outer most layer is the neurolemma and can regenerate. |
Schwann cells |
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regeneration occurs only in peripheral axons that are surrounded by |
neurolemma |
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In the brain what color is myelinated axons |
White matter |
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What color is unmyelinated axons, cell bodies neuroglia |
Gray matter |
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Location in:
Brain-gray matter covers surface & clustered in “nuclei” inside |
CNS |
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Location in: Spinal cord-gray matter forms H-shaped core surrounded by |
white matter |