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Nervous Tissue Consists of Two General Types of Cells: Nerve

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Nervous tissue consists of two general types of cells: nerve cells and glial cells.Glial cells are mitotic, whereas neural cells are not (excluding the small population of stem cells).Which type of cell is most likely to be involved in brain cancer, and why?


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