Neuron Physiology Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• satellite cells: provide electrical insulation and regulate chemical environment of neurons
• schwann cells: form the myelin sheath around neurons in the pns
• astrocytes: regulate the blood-brain barrier, repair damaged brain tissue, cover brain surface, nourish neurons
• microglia: act as phagocytes to ingest microorganisms, foreign matter, and dead nervous tissues
• ependymal cells: secrete and circulate cerebrospinal fluid
• oligodendrocytes: form the myelin sheath around neurons in the cns
• local potential: located in dendrites and soma, short distance, decremental, reversible, graded, ligand gates, excitatory and inhibitory
• action potential: located in axon and axon hillock, long distance, not decremental, not reversible, not graded, voltage, gates, excitatory
• sensory neuron: conducts impulses toward the cns
• interneuron: transmits info between neurons in the cns
• motor neuron: conducts impulses away from the cns