Healthy Axons Sometimes Respond to the Degeneration of Adjacent Axons

question 133

Multiple Choice

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

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