Match the term with its description (answers may be used more than once).
1. highly branched cells that transfer nutrients between blood vessels and neurons
2. specialized immune cells that are confined to the CNS
3. cells that form supportive capsules around cell bodies
.4 cells that create a selectively permeable epithelial layer to separate fluid compartments of the CNS
5. cells in the CNS that form myelin
6. cells in the PNS that form myelin
7. cells that are a source of neural stem cells
8. cells that myelinate several axons
9. cells that myelinate only one axon each; multiple cells per axon
A. ependymal cells
B. astrocytes
C. satellite cells
D. Schwann cells
E. oligodendrocytes
F. microglia
1. B. astrocytes
2. F. microglia
3. C. satellite cells
4. A. ependymal cells
5. E. oligodendrocytes
6. D. Schwann cells
7. A. ependymal cells
8. E. oligodendrocytes
9. D. Schwann cells
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