Spinal Cord

The spinal cord is the cylindrical and elongated portion of the central nervous system that is located in the vertebral canal. Its anterior...

Synapse

Synapse is the site of nerve impulse transmission from one neuron to another, usually from the axon terminal endings to the dendrite of an...

Neuron

The neuron ( nerve cell ) is the basic functional unit of the nervous system. It is highly specialized to transmit electrochemical impulses...

Neuroglia

Also called glia , the neuroglia is a group of interstitial support cells whose bodies and outgrowths fill the spaces in the brain and spin...

Oligodendrocytes

The oligodendrocytes are neuroglia support cells that produce and maintain the myelin sheath of neuron axons in the central nervous system....

Aquaporins 4

Aquaporins 4 are channels in the astrocyte membrane that regulate the extracellular osmotic pressure; in other words, they control the wat...

Astrocytes

Astrocytes are specialized, support cells found in the human brain. Together with the oligodendrocytes and microglia, they form the neurogl...