HISTOLOGY OF SPINAL CORD Flashcards
The cross section of spinal cord will show 2 areas which are?
Inner (Central) Gray mater
Outer (Peripheral) White mater
What area in the spinal cord arranged roughly in letter “H”?
Inner (Central) Gray mater
TRUE OR FALSE:
As compared to cerebral and
cerebellar arteries, the spinal cord
doesn’t have cortex and is not layered
TRUE
The Gray mater’s primary significance is the site of?
Synapse
The central spinal cord is lined by
what type of cells?
Ependymal cells
TRUE OR FALSE:
Gray mater has nerve cell bodies while white mater has no nerve cell bodies.
TRUE
What do you call a cellular sheath made up of squamous cells that
forms a semi-permeable barrier, characterized by the abundance of myofilaments & supported by
basal lamina?
Perineurium
True or False
A collection of fascicles form nerve TRUNKS in the CNS and nerve TRACTS in the PNS
FALSE
CNS - Nerve TRACTS
PNS - Nerve TRUNKS
Nerve tracts in the CNS and Nerve trunks in the PNS are covered by dense connective tissue called?
Epineurium
What do you call the macrophages of the CNS?
Microglia
What cells surround the ganglion cells?
Capsular/ Satellite Cells
What do you call the space between ganglion and capsular cells producing AIDS dementia?
Perilymphatic Space
