Lecture 15: Nervous tissue Flashcards
Telodendrites
Contain synaptic vessicles
Form presynaptic membrane
Multipolar neuron
Most common
One axon, multiple dendrites
Bipolar neuron
Have two processes, one at each end
Associated with special senses - olfactory/visual
Pseudounipolar
Have single process from body that bifurcates
Found in dorsal root ganglia
Golgi I neuron
Long axons which leave the gray matter
Golgi II
Short axons which ramify through gray matter
Epineurium
Covers entire nerve
Supplied by blood and lymphatics
Type I collagen and fibroblasts
Perineurium
Dense CT
Covers fascicles
Epithelial-like fibroblasts with tight junctions
Blood nerve barrier
Endoneurium
Thin layer of reticular CT
Surrounds individual fibers/schwann cells
Type III collagen
Presynaptic membrane contains
Dense bodies
SCa transport used by
SCb transport used by
Preassembled microtubules, neurofilaments
Enzymes, actin, clathrin
Intermediate transport used by
Mitochondria, other membrane bound organelles
Fast transport used by
Synaptic vessicles
Neurotransmitters
Glial cells derived from
Embryonic neural crest tissue
-except microglia
Astrocytes location/structure
Only in CNS
Numerous processes w/ expanded feet (pedicles) that terminate on capillaries or pia mater
Fibrous astrocytes
White matter
Long processes w/few branches
Protoplasmic astrocytes
Gray matter
Short processes w/many short branches
Astrocyte function
Regulate composition of intracellular environment
BBB- end feet form glia limitans
Development of cerebral cortex
Oligodendrocytes location/function
CNS only
Closely associated with neuron cell bodies, function as satellite cells
Surrounds axons in gray matter
Myelinate axons in CNS-each one myelinates several
Schwann cells
Myelinate single portion of axon in PNS