CAS BI 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Epineurium, Straight Sinus, Pia Mater

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Integrate information and decide how to respond to stimuli. Play a supporting role and aid the neural function. 3 more glial cells per every neuron. Wrap around blood vessels in the brain. Forms the blood-brain barrier (astrocyte projections wrap around capillaries in the brain and prevent leakage of chemicals) Assist in neural development during the fetal period. Presents challenge to drug delivery in treatment of parkinson"s, alzheimer"s, mental health disorders. Dangerous if you get an infection in the brain. Line the centa canal of spinal cord and ventricles of brain. Long processes from their membranes wrap around neuronal axons and help make impulses travel faster. Neurons get fewer and fewer, how can people get brain cancer and tumors. Glial cells can grow out of control: called gliomas. Usually only a problem when they start to squish nerves. Surround axons with extensions of their plasma membranes to help nerve impulses travel faster.

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