Healthy axons sometimes respond to the degeneration of adjacent axons by developing __________ that grow to the synaptic sites that have been abandoned by the degenerating axons

A) collateral sprouts
B) nodes of Ranvier
C) phagocytes
D) Schwann cells
E) dendritic spines


Answer: A

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