Anatomy | Neurons | Glial Cells | Molecular Biology |
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What is the occipital lobe?
This lobe of the brain is responsible for vision.
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What are dendrites?
This part of the neuron receives signals from other neurons.
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What is an astrocyte?
This glial cell type forms the blood brain barrier.
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What is the soma?
This is the region of the neuron in which DNA is stored.
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What are the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems?
These are the two subdivisions of the autonomic nervous system.
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What are dendrites, the soma, the axon, and the axon terminal?
These are the four main parts of a neuron.
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What are microglia?
This glial cell type is involved in the immune system of the nervous system.
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What is the cytoskeleton?
This is the structure responsible for maintaining the shape of the neuron and transporting molecules within a neuron.
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What are the cervical, thoracic, lumbar, and sacral regions?
These are the four regions of the spinal cord.
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What is amitotic?
This term describes neurons' inability to grow and divide into two cells.
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What is myelin?
This fatty substance is made up of glial cells wrapping around the axon to increase the speed at which signals travel down the axon.
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What is anterograde transport?
This is transport from the soma to the axon terminal.
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What is the cerebellum (or tegmentum)?
This region of the brain is important for motor coordination.
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What is an interneuron?
This type of neuron has a short axon that does not project far.
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What is a Schwann cell?
This glial cell type wraps around neurons' axons in the peripheral nervous system.
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What is retrograde transport?
This is transport from the axon terminal to the soma.
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What is the medulla oblongata?
This region of the brain is necessary for breathing.
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What is excitability?
This is the term used to describe a neuron's ability to receive and pass along a signal.
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What is an oligodendrocyte?
This glial cell type wraps around neurons' axons in the central nervous system.
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What are mitochondria?
This is the organelle that is transported to the tips of growing axons.
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