Unit 2.1 Terminology
Across
- 2. Which half of the spinal cord handles motor information?
- 4. What are clusters of cell bodies in the PNS called?
- 6. Where are neuron cell bodies clustered in the CNS?
- 10. What type of tract carries information from the spinal cord to the brain?
- 12. What is a nerve cell called?
- 13. What are clusters of cell bodies in the CNS called?
- 14. What type of substance elicits a response similar to an endogenous ligand?
- 15. What type of receptor allows different kinds of ions to travel in and out of the cell?
- 16. Where are millions of axons running between different parts of the CNS?
- 18. What are long axons called?
- 19. What type of receptor activates a G-protein that in turn activates a secondary messenger?
- 20. Which half of the spinal cord handles sensory information?
- 21. What are collections of axons in the PNS called?
Down
- 1. What are the supporting cells in the nervous system called?
- 3. What type of neuron carries signals away from the CNS? (Hint: Carries motor information)
- 5. What is a substance called which prevents endogenous ligands from binding to its native receptor; it does not elicit an effect on its own?
- 7. What is the area of the skin which is innervated by the sensory axons of the nerve? (Hint: Sensory nerve map of body))
- 8. What type of glial cells in the CNS are important for tight junction formation critical to the function of the BBB?
- 9. What is the collection of muscle fibers innervated by the motor axons of the nerve called? (Hint: Motor nerve map of body)
- 11. What type of tract carries information from the brain to the spinal cord?
- 14. What type of neuron carries signals towards the CNS? (Hint: Carry sensory information)
- 15. What are signaling neurons called?
- 17. What are collections of axons in the CNS called?