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A+P II Ch7 Flashcards

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What are the parts of the Nervous System?

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Central Nervous System
Peripheral Nervous System

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What is consistent in the Central Nervous System (CNS)?

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Brain
Spinal cord

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What does the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) consist of?

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Afferent information (input)
Efferent information (output)

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What is the function of the Central Nervous System?

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Receives and processes information from sensory organs and viscera.

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Where does the Sensory organs information originate?

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External Environment

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Where does the Viscera information originate?

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Internal Environment

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What kind of information does the Central Nervous System send?

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Send instructions to muscles and glands instructing them to perform appropriate tasks.

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What are the subdivisions of the Peripheral Nervous System?

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Afferent and Efferent

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What is the Peripheral Nervous System consist of?

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Neurons

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what are the primary actions of Afferent?

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Neurons transmit sensory and visceral information from the organs to the Central Nervous System.

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What information is transmitted from the Afferent to the Central Nervous System?

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Somatic Senses (skin, muscles, and joints)
Special Senses (vision, hearing, equilibrium, smell, and taste)
Visceral Information ( dietary fullness, blood pressure, and blood pH.)

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Efferent

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Neurons that transmit information from the Central Nervous System to organs in the periphery. (effector organs)

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What are the two subdivisions of Efferent?

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somatic( Voluntary)
Autonomic (involuntary) nervous system

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Somatic Nervous System

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Consists of the motor neurons, which regulate skeletal muscle contractions

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Autonomic Nervous System

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Consists of neurons that regulate the function of internal organs and other structures (sweat glands and blood vessels)

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What are the two branches of Autonomic Nervous System?

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Parasympathetic Nervous System
Sympathetic Nervous System

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Sympathetic Nervous System

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Fight or Flight response and preps the body for any potential danger

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Parasympathetic Nervous System

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Rest and digest response which brings the body to a state of calm

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What are the two main classes of cells in the Nervous System?

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Neurons (Excitable cells)
Glial cells (Support cells)

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Neurons (Excitable cells)

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The functional and smallest unit that can carry out the function of the tissue. Communicate by transmitting electrical impulses

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Excitable cells

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Capable of producing large, rapid electrical signals (action potentials)

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Glial cells (Support cells)

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90% of the cells in the nervous system. Provide various types of support to the neurons (structural and metabolic support)

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Synapse

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Site of communication between two neurons or a neuron and an effector organ

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Action Potentials

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Brief, large changes in membrane potential during which the inside of the cell becomes positively charged relative to the outside

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Innervation

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The nerve supply, usually to a specific part of the body.

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Innervation example

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When a neuron is capable of transmitting messages to an effector organ or receiving information from the sensory organ (innervate that organ)

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What are the three main components of a Neuron’s structure?

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A cell body (soma)
The dendrites
An Axon

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Dendrites and Axon

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Neural processes (or Neurites) that extend from the body

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Soma

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Contains nucleus and most organelles

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Soma performs what functions?

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Protein synthesis and cellular metabolism and can receive input at synapses

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Dendrites

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Branch from the cell body

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What are the functions of Dendrites?

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Receive input from other neurons at specialized junctions (synapses) and have varying branch extensions among neurons

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Axon

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Sends information and range from 1mm - 1m

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What are the functions of the Axon?

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Can branch (collaterals), the extent of branching varies among neurons and indicate the amount of communication with other cells

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What kind of information do Axons transmit?

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Rapidly transmits information over relatively long distances in the form of electrical signals (action potentials)

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What is the Specialized structures in the Axon

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The Axon Hillock

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Axon Hillock

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The site where the axon originates from the cell body, and initiate action potentials that are transmitted to the axon terminal

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Axon Terminal

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The release neurotransmitter on arrival of an action potential

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Presynaptic cell

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The neuron whose axon terminal is releasing neurotransmitter

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Postsynaptic cell

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The neuron that receive signal by neurotransmitter in the dendrite or cell body

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What are the two basic mechanisms for moving products?

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Anterograde transport
Retrograde transport

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Anterograde transport

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From the Soma to Axon terminal

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Retrograde transport

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From Axon terminal to Soma

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Slow axonal transport

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0.5-40 mm/day. Associated with movement of small soluble molecules in the cytosol

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Fast Axonal Transport

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100-400 mm/day. Associated with movement of vesicles, including synaptic vesicles

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Slow and Fast axonal transport

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Both involve proteins, microtubules and neurofilaments

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Fast axonal transport of vesicles function

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Act as tracks for transport molecules

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Fast axonal transport of vesicles

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Carry a vesicle, and can be a synaptic vesicle, or the vesicle to transport other products from the site of synthesis in the body to the axon terminal

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Ion channels in Neurons

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The opening or closing of ion channels changes the permeability of the plasma membrane for a specific ion

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Leak Channels (or nongated)

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Always open
Found in the plasma membrane throughout the neuron and is responsible for resting membrane potential

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Voltage-gated channels

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Open or close in response to changes in membrane potential

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Sodium and potassium channels

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Throughout the neuron, but more in the axon (Especially in the axon hillock), necessary for initiation and propagation of action potentials.

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Calcium channels

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Found in the greatest density in the axon terminal.
When open, calcium enter the cytosol of axon terminal and triggers the release of neurotransmitter

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Ligand-gated channels

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Open or close in response to a chemical (ligand) binding to a receptor. Synaptic potentials

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Location of Ligand-gated channels

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Located densely in dendrites and cell body

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Structural classes of Neurons

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Bipolar, Psuedo-unipolar and multipolar

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Bipolar

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Sensory neurons with two projections, an axon and a dendrite, coming off the cell body, and functions in the senses of olfaction (smell) and vision

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Pseudo-unipolar

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A subclass of bipolar neurons. The axon and dendrite projections appear as a single process that extends in two directions from the cell body.

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Multipolar

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The most common neurons, that have multiple projections from the cell body. One projection is an axon and the others are dendrites.

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What are the three classes of neurons?

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Afferent Neurons, Efferent Neurons, and Interneurons

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Afferent Neurons

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Originate in the periphery with sensory receptors (outside the body) , and visceral receptors (inside the body)

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Efferent Neurons

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Originate in the Central Nervous System, the cell body and dendrites receive synaptic communication from other neurons

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Interneurons

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Lie entirely in the Central Nervous System, and can communicate with afferent neurons, efferent neurons, or other interneurons

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Structural Organization of Neurons in the Central Nervous System

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Cell bodies of neurons are often grouped into nuclei, and the axons travel together in bundles known as pathways (tracts)

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Structural Organization of Neurons in the Peripheral Nervous System

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Cell bodies of neurons are clustered together in ganglia, the axons travel together in bundles known as nerves

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Glial Cells Latin meaning

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Glial cells function

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Provide structural integrity to the nervous system, chemical and anatomical support that permits neurons to carry out functions, and play important roles in intercellular communication.

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What are the four types of Glial cells?

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Astrocytes (located in Central Nervous System)
Microglia (located in Central Nervous System)
Oligodendrocytes (located in Central Nervous System)
Schwann cells (located in Peripheral Nervous System)

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Oligodendrocytes & Schwann cells

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Form an insulating layer of myelin around the axons of neurons, and insulation enables neurons to transmit action potentials more efficiently and rapidly

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Myelin

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Consists of concentric layers of plasma membranes of oligodendrocytes/schwann cells and reduce leakage of ions across the cell membrane

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Oligodendrocytes

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Form myelin around axons in the Central Nervous System and sends out projections providing the myelin segments for many axons

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Schwann cells

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Form myelin around axons in the Peripheral Nervous System and provides myelin for only one axon

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Nodes of Ranvier (or nodes)

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Gaps within the myelin in the axonal membrane and contains voltage-gated sodium and potassium channels which function in the transmission of action potentials by allowing ion movement across the membrane

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Resting Membrane Potential (resting Vm)

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At rest, cells have a potential difference across its membrane and inside of the cell is negatively charged relative to the outside while not receiving or transmitting any signals

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Resting membrane potential

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Neurons is approx -70 mV
All cells, -5mV to -100mV
“The types and numbers of ion channels vary”

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Neurons communicate

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By generating electrical signals in the form of changes in the membrane potential, and changes trigger the release of neurotransmitter which carries a signal to another cell

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Existence of the Membrane Potential

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The resting membrane potential is maintained by the NA+/Ka+ pump which balances the electrochemical forces with potassium ion moving out and sodium ions moving in the cell

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Graded potential

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A relatively small change in the membrane potential produced by some type of stimulus that triggers the opening or closing of ion channels

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Synaptic potential

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Graded potentials produced in the post-synaptic cell in response to neurotransmitter binding to receptors

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Receptor potential

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Graded potentials produced in response to a stimulus acting on a sensory receptor

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Equilibrium potential

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The membrane potential that counters the chemical forces acting to move an ion across the membrane, thereby putting the ion at equilibrium

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Electrochemical forces

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Causing sodium to continually leak into the cell and potassium to continually leak out of the cell

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Leakages

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Tend to slowly alter ion concentrations inside the cell, raising the sodium concentration while lowering the potassium concentration

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Electrical Signal

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Occur in the neurons via changes in membrane potential and are the result of gated channels whether they open or close in response to particular stimuli.

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What are the three types of gated ion channels?

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Voltage-gated
Ligand (chemically) gated
Mechanically gated

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Mechanically gated

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Found in sensory or visceral receptors located at the end of afferent neurons and crucial for normal functioning of the Nervous system

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Depolarization

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A change to a less negative or to a positive potential, the membrane become less polarized

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Repolarization

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The membrane potential returns to the resting membrane potential following a depolarization

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Hyperpolarization

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A change to a more negative value, and the membrane become more polarized

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What are the types of Electrical Signals?

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Graded potential
Action potential

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Neural Integration

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The particular combination of synaptic inputs-determining factor.

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Divergence

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A single neuron communicates to several other neurons

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Convergence

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A single neuron receives communication from several other neurons

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In the Neural Integration Convergence

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Acts as an integrator cause its adding up all the signals arriving from all active synapses “summation” process

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summation

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Adding effects of graded potentials

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Types of Summation

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Temporal, and Spatial

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Temporal

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Postsynaptic potentials being summed arise at the same synapse

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spatial

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Postsynaptic potentials being summed arise at different synapse

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Excitatory input

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A postsynaptic neuron receiving from neurons A and B

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Inhibitory input

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A postsynaptic neuron receiving from neuron C

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Temporal Summation

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Action potentials arrive from neuron A.
ESPSs produced in response to the binding of neurotransmitter overlap and sum

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Neurons A and B

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Are excitatory input meaning adding + membrane potential (mV) value

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Neuron C

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Is inhibitory input meaning it’s minus - membrane potential (mV) value

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Location of Excitatory and inhibitory synapse

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Occur at axodendritic and axosomatic synapses

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Axoaxonic Synapses

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Function as modulatory synapses that regulates the communication across another synapse

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Axoaxonic synapse Occurs

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In presynaptic facilitation or Presynaptic inhibition

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Presynaptic Modulation Neurotransmitter

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Binds to receptors on the membrane of the axon terminal of the postsynaptic neuron. Makes a change in calcium levels that enters the axon terminal to respond to an action potential.

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The Presynaptic facilitation neurons

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Neurons C and E

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Neuron E

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Enhances the release of neurotransmitters from C.
Increases the strength of the resulting EPSP to threshold. Generate an action potential in neuron X.

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Axoaxonic

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Excites or inhibits one synapse and is selective on the neuron

111
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Axodendritic/Acosomatic

112
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Acetylcholine

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