Practical 1 Flashcards
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Q: Draw a large mutliprocessed pyramidal neuron.
Identify primary and secondary dendrites.
Identify the axon.
A
A: REFER
axon=thin long spine at base of triangle (not part of corner)
2
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Q: Draw a protoplasmic astrocyte.
A
A: dense fuzz with cell body in middle
3
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Q: Sliide: cerebral cortex from MS brain.
What does an area of white matter show?
A
A: area of demyelination, MS lesion
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Q: Slide: cerebral cortex from MS brain.
Identify the grey matter.
A
A: REFER
5
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Q: What are dendritic spines? function?
A
A: small membranous protrusion from a neuron’s dendrite that typically receives input from a single axon at the synapse
