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Chapter 11 Flashcards

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Nervous system

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A system that rapidly communicates information throughout the body; composed of the brain, the spinal cord, nerves, and ganglia

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Ganglion

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A mass of nerve cells in the peripheral nervous system that resembles a knot.

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Peripheral Nervous System

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The parts of the nervous system outside of the brain and spinal cord; composed of nerves and ganglia.

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Central Nervous System

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The brain and spinal cord.

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Electrical Potential

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The brain and spinal cord.

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Current

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A moving cluster of charged particles.

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Stress

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A condition that upsets homeostasis and stimulates a physiological response.

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Alarm

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This step is your body’s immediate reaction to stress and it prepares you to fight or escape danger caused by stress. The body consumes large quantities of stored glycogen to handle the physical symptoms of stress.

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Resistance

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Longer stress stimuli (more than a few hours) deplete the body’s glycogen reserves, and the body must provide alternative and less efficient fuels, such as fat, for metabolism. Under sustained conditions, the body has trouble fighting off infections and maintaining hormone levels.

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Exhaustion

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  • After a longer time period (months) the body uses all its fat storage. When this store is depleted, homeostasis is upset and the body begins breaking down protein for energy, resulting in the depletion of muscle and overall weakness that can lead to heart or kidney failure and infections.
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The sensory division - PNS

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transmits action potentials to the CNS.

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The motor division - PNS

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carries action potentials away from the CNS.

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The somatic nervous system - Motor division - PNS

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innervates skeletal muscle and is mostly under voluntary control.

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The autonomic nervous system (ANS) - Motor - PNS

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innervates cardiac muscle, smooth muscle, and glands.

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The enteric nervous system

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controls the digestive system.

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Glial cells - CNS

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are supportive cells that support and aid the neurons of the CNS and PNS.

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Astrocytes - CNS

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provide structural support for neurons and blood vessels. Astrocytes influence the functioning of the blood-brain barrier and process substances that pass through it. Astrocytes isolate damaged tissue and limit the spread of inflammation. Astrocytes also help maintain synaptic function.

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Ependymal cells - CNS

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line the ventricles and the central canal of the spinal cord. Some are specialized to produce cerebrospinal fluid.

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Microglia - CNS

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phagocytize microorganisms, foreign substances, and necrotic tissue.

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An oligodendrocyte - CNS

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forms myelin sheaths around the axons of several CNS neurons.

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A Schwann cell - PNS

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forms a myelin sheath around part of the axon of a PNS neuron.

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Satellite - PNS

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cells support and nourish neuron cell bodies within ganglia.

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Myelinated axons

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are wrapped by several layers of plasma membrane from Schwann cells (PNS) or oligodendrocytes (CNS). Spaces between the wrappings are the nodes of Ranvier. Myelinated axons conduct action potentials rapidly.

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Unmyelinated axons

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rest in invaginations of Schwann cells (PNS) or oligodendrocytes (CNS). They conduct action potentials slowly.

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White matter

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consists of myelinated axons; it propagates action potentials. forms nerve tracts in the CNS and nerves in the PNS.

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Gray matter

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consists of collections of neuron cell bodies or unmyelinated axons. Axons synapse with neuron cell bodies, which are functionally the site of integration in the nervous system. forms cortex and nuclei in the CNS and ganglia in the PNS.

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Neuron communication can be described in three phases

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Generation of action potential

Propagation of action potential

Communication with target cell at the synapse

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A graded potential

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is a small change in the resting membrane potential that is confined to a small area of the plasma membrane. The term graded potential is used because a stronger stimulus produces a greater potential change than a weaker stimulus.

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The absolute refractory period

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is the time during an action potential when a second stimulus, no matter how strong, cannot initiate another action potential.

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The relative refractory period

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follows the absolute refractory period and is the time during which a stronger-than-threshold stimulus can evoke another action potential.

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A subthreshold stimulus

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produces only a graded potential.

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A threshold stimulus

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causes a graded potential that reaches threshold and results in a single action potential.

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A submaximal stimulus

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is greater than a threshold stimulus and weaker than a maximal stimulus. The action potential frequency increases as the strength of the submaximal stimulus increases.

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A maximal or a supramaximal stimulus

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produces a maximum frequency of action potentials.

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Electrical synapses

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are gap junctions in which tubular proteins called connexons allow local currents to move between cells.

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The enlarged ends of the axon - Chemical synapse

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are the presynaptic terminals containing synaptic vesicles.

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The postsynaptic membranes - Chemical synapse

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contain receptors for the neurotransmitter.

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The synaptic cleft - chemical syanpse

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is a space separating the presynaptic and postsynaptic membranes

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Convergent pathways

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have many neurons synapsing with a few neurons.

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Divergent pathways

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s have a few neurons synapsing with many neurons.

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Reverberating circuits

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have collateral branches of postsynaptic neurons synapsing with presynaptic neurons.

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Parallel after-discharge circuits

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have neurons that stimulate several neurons arranged in parallel that stimulate a common output.

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