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What accounts for the gray color of gray matter?

Presence of Nissi bodies

Absence of myelin

Both of the above

Neither of the above

Although they outnumber _____ by as much as ten to one, _____ account for only about half of the total volume of the nervous system.

Neuroglia; neurons

Neurons; glial cells

Interneurons; sensory neurons

Astrocytes; oligondendrocytes

Their method are different, but ____ in the CNS and ____ in the PSN perform similar functions.

Astrocytes; neurolemmocytes

Oligodendrocytes; Neurolemmocytes

Microglia; satellite cells

Ependymal cells; satellite cells

Which glial cells behave much like certain leukocytes?

Microglia

Ependymal cells

Oligondendrocytes

Satellite cells

Although classified as glial cells, _____ are also _____ that line the cavities in the brain and spinal cord and help form the choroid plexus.

Astrocytes; phagocytes

Microglia; phagocytes

Ependymal cells; epithelial cells

Oligodendroctyes; epithelial cells

Which glial cells participate in the repair of damaged nerves?

Satellite and ependymal cells

Neurolemmocytes

Oligondendrocytes

Astrocytes and microglia

Which nervous system division or components contain NO afferent neurons?

Somatic and visceral sensory

CNS and PNS

PNS and ANS

ANS and SNS

A multipolar neuron that synapse on a gland cell is functionally classified as?

Visceral motor neuron

Somatic motor neuron

Sensory motor neuron

Interneuron

In terms of nerve impulse conduction, unmylinated is to _____ as myelinated is to?

Oligodendrocytes; neurolemmocytes

Neurolemmocytes; oligodendrocytes

Continuous; saltatory

Saltatory; continuous

A nerve impulse involves _____ across a neuron's plasma membrane.

Changes in voltage

Movement of ions

Both a and b

Neither a nor b

Axon regeneration in the CNS is restricted by which of the following factors?

Oligodendrocytes do not release a nerve growth factor

Crowded axons in therein and spinal cord complicate growth

Astrocytes and connective tissue coverings may form obstructive scar tissue

All of the above

At a chemical synapse, _____ are found only in the plasma membrane of the _____ cell.

Neurotransmitters; postsynaptic

Receptors proteins; postsynaptic

Neurotransmitters; presynaptic

Receptor proteins; presynaptic

Synapses are categorized on the basis of?

Point of contact handmade of impulse transmission

Direction of signal and speed of impulse transmission

Size of synaptic knob and mode of impulse transmission

Shape of synaptic knob and speed of impulse transmission

Which structural classes of neurons are always sensory in function?

Multipilar and unipolar

Unipolar and bipolar

Bipolar and multipolar

Unipilar, bipolar and multipolar

The _____ is the only functional class of neurons entirely restricted to the _____ nervous system

Associated neuron; dental

Sensory neuron; central

Motor neuron; peripheral

Interneuron; peripheral

Which of the following are structural, as opposed to functional, divisions of the nervous system?

CNS and SNS

SNS and ANS

PNS and ANS

CNS and PNS

With regard to control of effectors, _____ is to involuntary as _____ is to voluntary.

Touch, vibration, and proprioception are examples of?

Special visceral senses

General visceral senses

Special somatic sense

General somatic sense

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