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- star-shaped
- processes make contact with blood capillaries, neurons, and pia mater
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- support neurons using microfilaments
- create blood-brain barrier
- promote neuron development in embyro
- maintain appropriate chem. environment for nerve impulse
- memory
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- resemble astrocytes but are smaller
- processes reponsible for maintaining myelin sheath around axons
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- processes have spin-like projections
- Fx as phagocytes
- remove cellular debris
- phagocytize microbes and damaged nervous tissue
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| 3 types of neuron classifications |
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- multipolar
- bipolar
- unipolar
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- Usually have serval dendrites
- one axon
- located in brain and spinal cord
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- one main dendrite
- one axon
- located in the retina of the eye, inner ear, and olfactory region of the brain
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- Many dendrite fused together with one axon.
- dendrite mostly Fx as senosory receptors
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- Afferent
- carry sensory information into the CNS
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- efferent
- carry impulse out of the CNS to the effector muscles or glands
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