While taking a final exam, you were concentrating so hard you left feeling exhausted. A very large share of the energy your brain expended during the exam was consumed by the __________ in your nervous system.
A) astrocytes
B) oligodendrocytes
C) sodium-potassium pumps
D) microglia
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