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receptor that communicates pricking fast pain
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free nerve
A-delta fibers (fast, myelinated) |
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receptor that communicates burning or dull pain and itch
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free nerve
C fibers slow, unmyelinated |
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receptor that communicates cold sensation
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free nerve
A delta |
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receptor that communicates warm sensation
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free nerve
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receptor that communicates vibration and pressure
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pacinian
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dynamic/changing light touch
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meissners
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static/unchanging light touch
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Merkels
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proprioception- muscle length monitoring
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muscle spindle
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proprioception muscle tension monitoring
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golgi tendon organ
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resembles an onion
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pacinian
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spindle shape found in soles of feet
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Ruffini
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found only on areas of skin without hair
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meissners
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simplest sensory receptor thought to be pain receptor or thermoreceptors
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free nerve endings
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touch receptor that is tough to distinguise from melanocytes
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merkel cell
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looksl like fried eggs under microscope
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oligodendrocytes
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form multinucleated giant cell in CNS when infected with HIV
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microglia
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myelinates multiple CNA axons
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oligodendroma
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myelinated one PNS axon
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schwann
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nerve cell damadged in guillian barre sundrome
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schwann
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damaged in MS
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oligodrndroma
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macrophages in the CNS
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microglioma
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cells of the BBB
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astrocytes
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make relative gliosis after damage
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astrocytes
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what is the cell marker of astrocytes?
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GFAP
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