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What do grey and white matter in the brains represent ?

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Grey matter is a major component of CNS consisting of neuronal cell bodies, dendrite, unmyelinatedaxous, glial cells and capillarie.
White matter is also a component of CNS and consists mostly of glial cell and myelinated axons
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