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Title

Supporting Nerve Cells

Description

Supporting Neurons of the CNS and PNS

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Subject

Physiology

Level

Undergraduate 3

Created

07/10/2011

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Term

Schwann cells

Definition

PNS: form myelin sheaths around peripheral axons

Term

Satellite cells

Definition

PNS; ganglionic gliocytes, support neuron cell bodies within the ganglia of the PNS and in sympathetic ganglia

Term

Oligodendrocytes

Definition

CNS; form myelin sheaths around axons of the CNS

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Microglia

Definition

CNS; migrate though CNS and phagocytose foreign and degenerated material