H1 Anatomy Divisions, Neurons, Neuroglia and Membrane Potential

Impulses that travel down a myelinated neuron move faster than if it was unmyelinated.

• True
• False

Which cell type provides structure to nervous tissue?

• Ependymal Cells

• Oligodendrocytes

• Astrocytes

• Microglia

This phagocytic cell type is specially made to take care of cellular waste and debris

• Oligodendrocytes

• Astrocytes

• Ependymal Cells

• Microglia

What type of neuroglial cell attaches neurons to capillaries?

• Astrocyte
• Oligodendrocytes
• Microglial
• Ependymal

The function of the ependymal cells is ___________.

• Protection of the delicate neuron axon
• Maintain the health of the neuron
• Circulates the cerebrospinal fluid
• Insulate the electrical impulse

What is the main function of oligodendrocytes?

• Production of myelin in CNS

• Maintain the health of the neuron
• Production of myelin in PNS

• Lining of the central cavities to circulate spinal fluid

Neuroglial cells that form the fatty myelin sheath on neurons in the CNS are ___________ in the PNS are ________________?

• ganglia and oligodendrocytes

• astrocytes and schwann cells

• schwann cells and oligodendrocytes

• oligodendrocytes and schwann cells

Small cells that engulf and destroy microbes and cellular debris in the CNS

• microglia

• horns

• neuroglia

• astrocytes

The entire junction between 2 nerves or a nerve and another structure

• axons

• synaptic cleft

• synapse

• synaptic knob

Produce cerebrospinal fluid in the brain & spinal cord

• ependymal cells

• oligodendrocytes

• microglia

• astrocytes