Nervous system

Question 1

gilia
location
function

Answer 1

brain, spinal cord, nerves

structural and functional support of nerves

Question 2

astrocytes

Answer 2

nervous tissue development

provides nutrients to neurones

help form and regulate synapses
part of blood brain barrier

Question 3

microglia

Answer 3

engulf microbes and debris

prunes neural circuits

Question 4

Ependymal cells

Answer 4

form sheets with motile cilia

line fluid space, propel fluid

Question 5

oligodendrocytes

Answer 5

form insulating myelin sheet around CNS nerve fibers

Question 6

Schwann cells

Answer 6

PNS myelin sheath

promotes regeneration of damaged fibres

Question 7

endoneurium

Answer 7

a layer of delicate connective tissue around the myelin sheath of each myelinated nerve fiber

Question 8

neurilemma

Answer 8

the thin sheath around a nerve axon (including myelin where this is present).

Question 9

GpCR

Answer 9

G protein coupled receptor
A cell receptor that has a G protein coupled to it so that when a molecule binds to the receptor the G Protein is released inside the call and causes eg, sodium channels to open and depolarise a celll