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7a Flashcards

1
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Sensory input

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Getting info

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2
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What do sensory do?

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Monitor stimuli in and out of body

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Integration

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Nervous system processes input and sees if you need to do anything

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Motor output

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Response or effect that activates muscles or glands

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5
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CNS

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Central nervous system
Brain and spinal cord

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Peripheral nervous system

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Cranial and spinal nerves

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7
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Afferent

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Sense organs

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Efferent

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Motor

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Parts of efferent system

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Somatic
Autonomic

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Somatic

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Voluntary
Skeletal muscle

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Autonomic

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Involuntary
Cardiac and smooth muscle

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Parts of autonomic system

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Parasympathetic and sympathetic

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13
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Function of CNS

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Integration:command center
Interprets info

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14
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What is the PNS made of?

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Nerves extending from brain and spinal cord

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15
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Spinal nerves

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Carry messages to and from spine

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16
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Cranial nerves

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Carry messages to and from brain

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17
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Function of PNS

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Communicates sense organs, brain, spinal cord and glands or muscles

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18
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Sensory (afferent) division

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Fibers carry info to CNS

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19
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Afferent somatic sensory fibers

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Carry info from skin, skeletal muscles & joints

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Visceral sensory fibers (afferent)

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Carry info from visceral organs

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Motor (efferent) division

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Nerve fibers carry impulses away from CNS to affector organs

(Muscles and glands)

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Neuroglia

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support cells in CNS

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23
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What do neuroglia do?

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Support
Insulate
Protect neurons

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24
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Which cells never lose the ability to divide?

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Glia aka neuroglia aka glial cells

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25
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What do glial cells look like?

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Neurons

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26
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How are glial cells different from neurons

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Never lose ability to divide
Can’t conduct nerve impulses

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27
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Types of nervous tissue cells

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1.Glia
2. Neurons

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28
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Astrocytes

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1.Type of glial

2.Star shaped

3.Anchor neurons to capillaries

  1. Controls permeability, exchanges blood
  2. Protects from harmful chemicals
  3. Controls chemical environment
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29
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Most abundant glial cells

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Astrocytes

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30
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Microglia

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  1. Spidery phagocytes
  2. Check health of neurons
  3. Get rid of debris
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31
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Ependymal cells

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1.Line cavities
2. Cilia help move cerebrospinal fluid
3. Found in ventricles

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32
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Oligodendrocytes

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1.Make myelin sheath
2.wrap around nerve fibers
3. Insulates axons

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33
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Oligodendrocytes part of

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CNS

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34
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Ependymal cells part of

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CNS

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35
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Microglia part of

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CNS

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36
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Astrocytes part of

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CNS

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37
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Schwann cells part of

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PNS

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38
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Satellite cells part of

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PNS

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39
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Schwann cells

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Make myelin sheath in PNS nerve fibers

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40
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Satellite cells

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Protect and cushion neuron cell bodies

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41
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Neurons

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Specialized cells to transmit messages

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42
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Regions on neurons

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Cell body
Processes

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43
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Cell body of neurons

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Nucleus and metabolic center of cell

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44
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Processes of neurons

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Fibers that extend from cell body

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45
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Characteristic of neuron cell body

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1.Nucleus w/ large nucleolus

2.Nissl Bodies

  1. Neurofibrils
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46
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Nissl bodies

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Special rough ER

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47
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Neurofibrils

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Keep cell shape intermediate filaments

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48
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Types of processes

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1.Dendrites
2.Axons
3. Synapse

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49
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Dendrites

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Messages toward cell body (bring messages)

One neuron may have hundreds

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50
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Axons

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Take messages away

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51
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How many axons do neurons have?

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One

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52
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Where is axon located?

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At axon hillock

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53
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Where do axons end?

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At axon terminals

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54
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What do axon terminals contain?

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Vesicles w/ neurotransmitters

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55
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What separates axon terminals?

56
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Synaptic cleft

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Gap between axon terminals and next neuron

57
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Synapse

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Functional junction between nerves where nerve impulse is transmitted

58
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Myelin

A

White fatty material

Covers axons

Protects, insulates and speeds transmission

59
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Wrap axons in jelly roll fashion (PNS) to form myelin sheath

A

Schwann cells

60
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Neurilemma

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Part of Schwann cell outside of myelin sheath

61
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Nodes of Ranvier

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Gaps in myelin sheath along axon

62
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Produce myelin sheath around axons of CNS

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Oligodendrocytes

63
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Which myelin sheath cells lack a neurilemma?

A

Oligodendrocytes

64
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Nuclei

A

Clusters of cell bodies in CNS

65
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Ganglia

A

Collections of cell bodies outside of CNS in the PNS

66
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Tracts

A

Bundles of nerve fibers in the CNS

67
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Nerves

A

Bundles of nerve fibers in the PNS

68
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White matter

A

Collections of myelinated fibers (tracts)

69
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Gray matter

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Mostly unmyelinated fibers and cell bodies

70
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Sensory afferent neurons

A

Take info from sense receptors to CNS

71
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Afferent receptors include

A

1.Cutaneous sense organs
2.Proprioceptors (muscles, tendons)

72
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Proprioceptors

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Send info about position & movement of tendons and muscles to CNS

73
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Free nerve endings

A

Pain and temp receptors in skin

74
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Meissner’s corpuscles

A

Touch receptors

75
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Lamellar corpuscles

A

Deep pressure receptors

76
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Golgi tendon organ

A

Proprioceptor

Get stimuli from within body

Respond to position and movement

77
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Muscle spindle

A

Proprioceptor

Get stimuli from within body

Respond to position and movement

78
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Motor neurons (efferent)

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Take orders from CNS to viscera, muscles, glands

79
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Interneurons aka

A

Association neurons

80
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Interneurons

A

Connect sensory and motor neurons

Cell bodies in the CNS

Reflexes

81
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Multipolar neurons

A

Many extensions
Most common structural type

82
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Motor and interneurons are all

A

Multipolar

83
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Bipolar neurons

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One axon
One dendrite

84
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Where are bipolar neurons located?

A

Special sense organs
(Nose, eye)

Rare in adults

85
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Unipolar neurons

A

Short, single process

86
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Where are unipolar neurons found?

A

PNS ganglia

87
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What do unipolar neurons do?

A

Conduct impulses toward and away from the body

88
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Irritability

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Respond to stimulus and turn into impulse

89
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Conductivity

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Ability to transmit impulse to other neurons ,
Muscles or glands

90
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Electric condition of resting neuron membrane

A

Polarized
Membrane mostly impermaneable to Na+ and K+

91
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Polarized

92
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In a resting neuron membrane, ion distribution

A

Less positive ions inside than outside

93
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Major positive ion inside the cell

94
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Major positive ion outside the cell

95
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When does the cell remain inactive?

A

When inside of membrane is more negative (less positive ions) than outside

96
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What changes permeability of neuron’s membrane to Na ions ?

A

A stimulus

97
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Step 2 of action potential and generation

A

Na channels open and Na+ enters neuron

98
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Step 1 of action potential and generation

A

A stimulus changes permeability of membrane

99
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Step 3 of action potential and generation

A

Influx of Na+ changes polarity

100
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Depolarization

A

Caused by influx of Na+

No longer inactive

101
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Step 4 of action potential and generation

A

Localized depolarization exists where inside is more positive than outside

102
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Localized depolarization

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Graded potential

103
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Step 5 of action potential and generation

A

If depolarization is great enough, neuron is activated to conduct impulse

104
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Propagation of the action Potential

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If enough Na enters cell, impulse is started and is propagated over the entire axon

105
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All or none response

A

Impulse is either propagated or not

106
Q

Fibers with ______ ________ conduct impulses more quickly

A

Myelin sheaths

107
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How is action potential propagated?

A

1st membrane patch makes adjacent membrane more permeable.

108
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Repolarization

A

Opposite of depolarization

109
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What happens during repolarization?

A

Becomes impermeable to Na and permeable to K

K+ is removed

Inside has - charge, outside has + charge

110
Q

In which direction does repolarization occur?

A

Same direction as depolarization

111
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What restores initial conditions of Na and K ?

A

Na K pump, uses ATP

112
Q

___ ______ ions are ejected from the cell by the Na K pump

113
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___ _______ ions are returned to the cell by the Na K pump

A

Two potassium

114
Q

Neuron can’t conduct another impulse until

A

Repolarization is complete

115
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Step 1 of transmission of signal at synapses

A

Action potential reaches the axon terminal,

Electric charge opens calcium channels

116
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Step 2 of transmission of signal at synapses

A

Calcium kick-starts next part

Makes tiny vesicles containing neurotransmitter chemical to fuse w/ axonal membrane.

117
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Step 3 of transmission of signal at synapses

A

Release neurotransmitters into synaptic cleft

118
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Step 4 of transmission of signal at synapses

A

Neurotransmitters in synaptic cleft diffuse and bind to receptors on membrane of next neuron

119
Q

Neurons not in direct contact, instead form

120
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Step 5 of transmission of signal at synapses

A

If enough neurotransmitter is released, graded potential is generated. Eventually, nerve impulse will occur beyond the synapse

Kick-starts entrance of Na+ into receiving cell

121
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Step 6 of transmission of signal at synapses

A

Electrical changed during neurotransmitter binding are brief

NT removed from synapse

Ion channels closed, NT broken down and released

122
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What removes NT from synapse ?

A

Reuptake
Enzymatic activity

123
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Transmission down neuron is

A

Electrical

124
Q

Transmission to next neuron is

125
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Reflexes

A

Rapid, predictable, involuntary responses

126
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Reflexes occur over which neural pathways?

A

Reflex arcs

127
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Types of reflexes

A

Somatic
Autonomic

128
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5 elements of reflex arc

A
  1. Receptor
  2. Sensory neuron
  3. Integration center (spinal cord)
  4. Motor neuron
  5. Effector
129
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Somatic reflexes

A

Stim skeletal muscles
Involuntary
Pulling hand away from fire

130
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Autonomic reflexes

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  1. Smooth muscle,
    Heart,
    Glands.
  2. Regulation of smooth muscle, heart, BP, glands, digestive system
131
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Sensory receptor

A

Reacts to stim

132
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Sensory neuron

A

Carries message to integration center

133
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Integration center (CNS)

A

Processed info and directs motor output

134
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Motor neuron

A

Carries message to effector

135
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Effector organ

A

Muscle or gland that’s stimulated

136
Q

Two neuron reflex arcs

A

Simplest type
Patellar (knee jerk) reflex

137
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3 neuron reflex arcs

A

Has all 5 parts of a reflex arc

Flexor: withdrawal (hot surfaces)

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