a: An astrocyte ~
b: nursing cell
What: "There are two important support cells to know about -- oligodendrocytes and astrocytes. An oligodendrocyte puts myelin around your nerve connections. (In MS, myelin is disrupted.) Myelin is like insulation. An astrocyte is a nursing cell. It sits next to the dopamine neuron and feeds it. The astrocyte is like a hospital."
Useful?
Writer: Svendsen, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
LCC:
Where:
Date: Oct 19 2013 2:26 PM
#4192 Email metamia about this
No critique for this page.
Feel free to be the first
Feel free to be the first
Please review the linked page for context.
If you can think of something better than this,
please add it to the database