ABSTRACT
Astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, ependyma, and microglial cells are four major support cells in the mammalian CNS. Astrocytes provide a structural scaold for other elements of the CNS and regulate the exchange of uid. Fibrous and protoplasmic astrocytes are two types of astrocytes. Oligodendrocytes coat the axons in the CNS with myelin. e primary function of the ependyma is to interact with astrocytes to form a barrier separating the ventricles of the brain and cerebrospinal uid (CSF) from the CNS
36.1 Overview of the Anatomy of the Nervous System.....................36-1 36.2 Peripheral Nerve Repair ................................................................36-2
36.4. Animal Models of Nervous System Injury Research ..............36-12 36.5 Overall Summary of Neural Tissue Engineering ....................36-12 References ..................................................................................................36-12
neurons. Microglia are the specialized macrophage in the CNS (Streit 2001). All of these four dierent cells are known as glial or neuroglial cells (Dawson et al. 2003).
