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1b Neuromuscular Control Flashcards

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what are alpha motor neurones?

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The lower motor neurones of the brainstem and the spinal cord that innervate the extrafusal muscle fibres of skeletal muscles

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What does activation of the alpha motor neurones cause?

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Muscle contraction

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What is a motor neurone pool?

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Pool which contains all the alpha motor neurones which innervate a single muscle

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what is a motor unit?

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a single motor neuron together with all the muscle fibres that it innervates. It is the smallest functional unit with which to produce force.

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What does stimulation of a motor unit cause?

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Contraction of all the muscle fibres in that unit

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What are Type 1 muscle fibres?

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Slow - smallest cell bodies and smalled dendritic trees, thinnest axons and slowest conduction velocity

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What are Type 2A muscle fibres?

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Fast, fatiguable - larger diameter cell bodies, larger dendritic trees, thicker axons and faster conductions

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What are Type 2B muscle fibres?

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Fast, fatigue resistant - larger diameter cell bodies, larger dendritic trees, thicker axons and faster conductions

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What are Type 2B muscle fibres?

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Fast, fatiguable - larger diameter cell bodies, larger dendritic trees, thicker axons and faster conductions

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Which type of muscle fibre produces the largest amount of force?

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Type 2B

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How are the three motor unit types classified?

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amount of tension generated, speed of contraction and fatiguability.

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What are the two mechanisms by which the brain regulates the amount of force a single muscle produced?

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rate coding and recruitment

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What is recruitment?

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When smaller units are recruited first, and as more force is required, larger units are then recruited - this allows for fine control when necessary

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What is rate coding?

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When different units can fire at different frequencies - higher firing rate is larger force

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When does summation occur?

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When the muscle units fire at a frequency which is too fast to allow the muscle to relax between AP’s

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what are neurotrophic factors?

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a type of growth factors which prevent neuronal death and promote the growth of the neurones after injury

17
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What is the effect of neurotrophic factors?

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If a fast twitch muscle and a slow muscle are cross innervated, the slow becomes fast and the fast becomes slow.

The motor neuron has some effect on the properties of the muscle fibres it innervates.

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What causes a change from IIB to IIA fibres?

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Training

19
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What causes a change from Type I to Type II?

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Severe deconditioning or spinal cord injury, or microgravity

20
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What change is ageing associated with?

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with loss of type I and II fibres but also preferential loss of type II fibres.

21
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What is the evidence that ageing results in a loss of type 1 and 2 fibres, with a preferential loss of type 2?

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Larger proportion of type 1 fibres = slower contraction times

22
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What is a reflex?

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An automatic response to a stimulus that involves a nerve impulse passing inward from a receptor to a nerve centre and then outward to an effector (as a muscle or gland) without reaching the level of consciousness.

23
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What is the Jendrassik Manoeuvre?

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Try clenching the teeth, making a fist, or pulling against locked fingers when having patellar tendon tapped. The reflex becomes larger

24
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What type of control dominates in normal conditions?

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Inhibitory control

25
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What reveals the excitatory control from the supraspinal areas?

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Decerebration

26
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What can be the result of brain damage that causes an overactive or tonic stretch reflex?

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Rigidity and spasticity

27
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What is hyper-reflexia?

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Overactive reflexes due to a loss of descending inhibition, and is associated with upper motor neuron lesions

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What is Clonus (As a type of hyper-reflexia)?

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Involuntary and rhythmic muscle contractions

29
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What is the Babinski Sign?

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When the sole of the foot is stimulated with a blunt instrument, the big toe curls upwards (in adults, this is abnormal)

30
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When the sole of the foot is stimulated with a blunt object, what is the normal and pathological response in adult and kids?

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Adults - Normal = Down, Pathological = Upwards
Children - Normal = Upwards

31
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What type of lesion is babinski sign associated with?

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Upper motor lesions

32
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What is hyporeflexia?

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Below normal or absent reflex - associated with lower motor neurone disease

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