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What are oligodendrocytes similar to?
Oligodendrocytes are similar to Schwann cells, as both are types of glial cells that provide support and insulation to neurons. While oligodendrocytes myelinate multiple axons in the central nervous system, Schwann cells myelinate single axons in the peripheral nervous system. Both cell types are crucial for maintaining proper neuronal function and signal transmission.
The myelin sheath that covers many CNS axons is formed by?
Oligodendrocytes
What are the four types of glial cells?
astrocytes, microglia, ependymal, and oligodendrocytes.
Which neuroglial cell is responsible for the production of myelin sheaths around axons in the central nervous system?
Oligodendrocyte; processes of the oligodendrocytes form the myelin sheaths around the CNS nerve fibers
What is the main function if the nerve cells?
A neurone is a collection of specialized cells, along with supporting cells (oligodendrocytes), that convey or carry an electrical impulse to or away from the central nervous system.
Are oligodendrocytes unipolar bipolar or multipolar?
Oligodendrocytes are unipolar.Source: "Human Anatomy & Physiology" by Elaine N. Marieb and Katja Hoehn, ninth edition
What type of neuroglia forms the myelin sheath?
oligodendrocytes for C.N.S. and shcwann cells for P.N.S.
Schwann cells are functionally similar to what?
oligodendrocytes
Which cells form myelin in the spinal cord?
They are called oligodendrocytes but in the peripheral nervous system you would call them schwann cells.
What are oligodendrocyte dominant organelles?
they are two types of glia cells. oligodendrocytes are responsible for the myelination of neurons in the central nervous system. swan cells perform the same function but in the peripheral nervous system.
Which does not belong astrocytes neurons oligodendrocytes or microglia?
neurons
How is a schwann cell similar to an oligodendrocyte?
Oligodendrocytes are glial cells that function in the CNS--the brain and spine. They provide insulation (myelin sheaths) in several locations, possibly multiple neurons. Meanwhile, schwann cells are glial cells that function in the PNS--peripheral nervous system, everything outside the brain and spine. Individually, they wrap around axons of nerves, forming individual segments of myelin sheaths. They, unlike oligodendrocytes, can guide repairs to damaged axons. Damage to the nerves in the brain are not so easily remedied.
