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100

What part of the neuron receives signals?

Dendrites

100

Which glial cell maintains the blood brain barrier?

Astrocytes

100

What type of neuron connects other neurons in neuronal pools?

Interneurons

100

A neuron with multiple dendrites and a single axon.

Multipolar

100

The central nervous system is made up of the

Brain and spinal cord

200

What part of a neuron transmits action potentials?

Axon

200

This glial cell has an immune function in the nervous system.

Microglia

200

Which ion enters the axon during an action potential?

Sodium (Na)

200

A neuron with one dendrite and one axon.

Bipolar

200

Areas in the brain of neuronal cell bodies appear

Gray

300

What is the function of the Axon hillock?

Area that generates action potential to travel down axon.

300

These cells assist in the making of CSF.

Ependymal cells

300

The balance of IPSPs and EPSPs is called

summation.

300

Neuronal fibers that travel from the CNS to the PNS.

Efferent fibers

300

Myelin is rich in levels of which macronutrient?

Lipids

400

What fatty layer wraps around the axon?

Myelin sheath

400

These cells form the myelin sheath in the peripheral nervous system.

Schwann cells

400

The benefit of myelin sheath is that it does what to axon transmission?

Increases speed

400

The process of axon transmission along a myelinated fiber.

Saltatory conduction

400

The part of the nervous system that acts below conscious awareness.

Autonomic

500

What structure is found at the end of the axon?

Synaptic bulb

500

What are the gaps found between areas of myelin sheath along an axon?

Nodes of Ranvier

500

A more negative resting membrane potential is classified as 

Hyperpolarization

500

Clusters of neuron cell bodies in the PNS.

Ganglia

500

The method by which neurotransmitters are released from synaptic bulbs.

Exocytosis

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