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PARTS OF A NEURON

Across
I surround axons in the peripheral nervous system.
Afferent
I am in the CNS & maintain blood-brain barrier.
I can be very short or very long. I transmit a signal away from the cell.
I am the place where electric signals come together.
I provide support of function. I synthesize lipids and proteins.
There are 85 to 100 billion of me in your body.
I am like a post office. I am where a message prepares to synapse to the next dendrite.
I carry enzymes.
I am the fatty tissue that wraps around the axon. I am the first of the glial cells.
Down
I surround neuron cell bodies in the ganglia and regulate neurotransmitter levels.
I am the cell body. I carry your DNA.
I help transmit electric signals faster.
I am the powerhouse of the cell.
I am jelly like substance that provides structure to the soma.
Efferent
I am the organizer of a cell.
I am tentacles that absorb the information from other cells and transmit energy into the soma.
I am located in the Central Nervous System. I am tucked away in myelin sheaths.
I am located inside the nucleus. I am dense and I synthesize RNA.
I am in the center of the body. I function everything.