Neuroglia
Also called glia , the neuroglia is a group of interstitial support cells whose bodies and outgrowths fill the spaces in the brain and spinal cord b…
Also called glia , the neuroglia is a group of interstitial support cells whose bodies and outgrowths fill the spaces in the brain and spinal cord b…
The oligodendrocytes are neuroglia support cells that produce and maintain the myelin sheath of neuron axons in the central nervous system. Being sl…
Aquaporins 4 are channels in the astrocyte membrane that regulate the extracellular osmotic pressure; in other words, they control the water balanc…
Astrocytes are specialized, support cells found in the human brain. Together with the oligodendrocytes and microglia, they form the neuroglia, which…
The muscles of mastication are the four paired skeletal muscles which allow us to bite and chew the food we eat so that we can swallow it. They are …
The masseter muscle is the strongest and the main muscle of mastication (chewing). It arises from the inferior half of the zygomatic arch (cheek bo…
The lateral pterygoid muscle is a thick triangular muscle of the lateral aspect of face. Lying in the infratemporal fossa, it is one of the four mu…