Multiple Sclerosis and Guillain-Barre Syndrome Both Involve Damage to Myelin

question 37

Multiple Choice

Multiple sclerosis and Guillain-Barre syndrome both involve damage to myelin, although the location of the affected myelin differs.Multiple sclerosis affects myelin in the central nervous system, whereas Guillain-Barre syndrome affects myelin in the peripheral nervous system.This means that multiple sclerosis affects _______ and Guillain-Barre affects _______.

• A) Schwann cells; astrocytes
• B) Schwann cells; oligodendrocytes
• C) astrocytes; oligodendrocytes
• D) oligodendrocytes; Schwann cells
• E) microglia; macroglia

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