A disease that destroyed astrocytes would be expected to:
a. decrease a neurons’s aerobic energy metabolism.
b. prevent electrical impulses from traveling down axons.
c. lead to foreign substances entering the brain from the circulatory system.
d. increase the density of dendritic spines.
Ans: C
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