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Chapter 4 Flashcards

1
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Define: Plasma membrane

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Outer boundary of the cell that separates it from the world is a thin, fragile structure

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2
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Estimated thickness of plasma membrane

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5-10 nm

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3
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Do all membranes have the same ultrastructure?

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Yes

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4
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How can you observe the plasma membrane?

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An electron microscope

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5
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What are the 7 functions of the plasma membrane?

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  1. Compartmentalization
  2. Scaffold for biochemical activities
  3. Selectively permeable membrane
  4. Transport solutes
  5. Response to external stimuli
  6. Cell-cell communication
  7. Energy transduction
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6
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What is the plasma membrane made of?

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Lipids and proteins

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7
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Define: Amphipathic

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Property of a molecule having both hydrophobic and hydrophilic regions

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8
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What is insulation for a nerve cell?

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Myelin sheath

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9
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Define: Phosphoglycerides

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Lipids with phosphate group

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10
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Define: Phosphoglycerides

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Phospholipids built on glycerol backbone

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11
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Define: Sphingolipids

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Derivative of sphingosine

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12
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Define: Sphingosine

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An amino alcohol that contains a long hydrocarbon chain

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13
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Define: Ceramides

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Basic structural units of all sphingolipids, consists of sphingosine linked to fatty acid by amino group

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14
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Define: Cholesterol

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Smaller and less amphipathic molecule

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15
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What sterol makes up to 50% of animal membrane lipids

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Cholesterol

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16
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Can lipid bilayers self-assemble?

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Yes

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17
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Liposome functions in the bilayer

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  • deliver drugs within the body
  • membrane proteins inserted into liposomes
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18
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What are membrane carbohydrates?

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Plasma membrane of eukaryotic cells have carbohydrate, glycoproteins and glycolipids

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19
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What is the function of membrane carbohydrates?

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Mediates interactions of cell and the environment

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20
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What is an example of an important carbohydrate in plasma membrane?

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Blood type

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21
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What determines blood type?

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Glycolipid carbohydrates of RBC plasma membrane

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22
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Blood type A

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Adds enzyme V-acetylgalactosamine to end chain

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23
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Blood type B

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Adds enzyme galactose to chain terminus

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24
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Blood type AB

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Both enzymes present

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25
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Blood type O

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Lacks enzyme capable of attaching either terminal sugar

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26
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What is integral membrane protein function?

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Receptors that bind ligands, channels, or transporters to move ions/solutes across membrane

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27
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Are integral membrane proteins amphipathic?

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Yes

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28
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What are peripheral membrane proteins?

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Associate with membrane by weak electrostatic bonds

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29
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What are lipid anchored membrane proteins

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Covalently bonded to a lipid group that resides within membrane

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30
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What are lipid rafts?

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Outer leaflet of plasma membrane contains specialized regions

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31
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What is the function of lipid rafts?

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Provide favourable environment for cell-surface receptors

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32
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Phospholipids move in what way?

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Laterally

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33
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Define: Flippases

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Enzymes that move certain phospholipids from one leaflet to the other

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34
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Define: Apical plasma membrane

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Absorbs substances from lumen

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35
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Define: Lateral

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Cell contact

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36
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Define: Basal

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Substratum contact, ion gradient

37
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Cell with the most highly differentiated structure, covered in continuous plasma membrane

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Sperm cells

38
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What is Brownian movement

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Phospholipids can find for brief periods to certain areas

39
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What can detect and demonstrate distribution of different proteins?

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Antibodies

40
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What is spectrin?

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Has alpha and beta subunit, wound around each other and head to tail orientation. Major component of internal membranes skeleton

41
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What is ankyrin?

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Mediate interaction with interval membrane proteins

42
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Where is Actin found?

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Present in microfilaments

43
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What is glycophorin A?

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Transmembrane dimer, each subunit single pass protein, heavily glycosylated

44
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What does G3PD stand for?

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Glyceraldehyde – three – phosphate dehydrogenase

45
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Four basic mechanisms which solute moves across membranes:

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  1. Passive
  2. Active
  3. Nonmediated
  4. Transporter mediated
46
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How do you calculate net flux?

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Difference between influx in efflux 

47
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Define: Osmosis

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Diffusion of water through semi permeable membrane

48
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Cells (shrink, swell, stay same) in a hypotonic solution?

49
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Cells (shrink, swell, stay same) in a hypertonic solution?

50
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Cells (shrink, swell, stay same) in a isotonic solution?

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Stay same 

51
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Are ions permeable or impermeable to membranes

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Impermeable

52
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Three ways ion channels can exist

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Open, closed, or gated

53
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Three major categories of gated channels:

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  1. Voltage gated channels
  2. Ligand gated channels
  3. Mecano gated channels
54
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Voltage gated channels confirmational state depends on what?

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Difference in ionic charge on the two membrane sides

55
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Ligand gated channels confirmational state depends on what?

A

Binding of specific molecules

56
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Mecano gated channels confirmational state depends on what?

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Mechanical forces applied to membrane

57
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Gradients are generated by what?

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Active transport

58
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Define: Facilitated diffusion

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Process by which the diffusion rate of a substance is increased through interaction with a substance specific membrane protein

59
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What molecules is facilitated diffusion used for?

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Sugars and amino acids

60
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Facilitated diffusion transport involves what done to the molecule?

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Confirmational changes

61
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Can facilitated transporters mediate movement of solutes in both directions?

62
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What is a facilitative transporter?

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Transmembrane proteins that bind to specific substance and changes its confirmation so as to facilitate diffusion of the substance down its concentration gradient

63
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Define: Active transport

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Energy requiring process, a substance binds to a specific transmembrane protein which changes its confirmation to allow passage of the substance through the membrane against the electrochemical gradient

64
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What is an active site?

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Part of an enzyme molecule that is directly involved in binding the substrate

65
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What is an example of primary active transport in humans?

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NA/K ATPase, Sodium potassium ATPase

66
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What does NA/K ATPase do?

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Pumps potassium in, sodium out

67
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What is the ratio of sodium: potassium pumped?

68
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What type of pump is ATPase?

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P type pump 

69
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Describe a P – type pump

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Phosphorylation causes changes in confirmation an ion affinity that allowed transport against gradients

70
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What is an E1 conformation?

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Ion binding sites are accessible to inside of the cell

71
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What is an E2 conformation?

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Ion binding sites accessible to outside of the cell

72
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What is a V type pump?

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Actively transport H across walls of cytoplasmic organelles

73
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What are ABC transporters?

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ATP binding cassette

74
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What is co-transport?

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Coupling transport to existing ion gradients 

75
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What drives cotransport of glucose?

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Diffusion of sodium ions down concentration gradient

76
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What is the secondary active transport of glucose?

77
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Define: Neurons

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Specialized cells for information transmission using changes in membrane potentials

78
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Define: Dendrites

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Receive incoming information, cell body contains nucleus and metabolic centre of cell

79
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Define: Axon

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Long extension for conducting outgoing impulses

80
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Define: Resting potential

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Membrane potential of nerve or muscle cell subject to changes when activated

81
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Define: Depolarization

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When cells stimulated, sodium channels open

82
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Define: Action potential

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When cells stimulated, voltage gated sodium channels open

83
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Excitable membranes exhibit what type of behavior?

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All or none

84
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Where are action potential is generated?

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Nodes of Ranvier

85
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What does the speed of neural impulse depend on?

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Axon diameter and weather axon is myelinated

86
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Define: Postsynaptic cell

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A cell that receives neurotransmitters from another cell across a synapse

87
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Define: Synapse

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Specialized junction of a neuron with its target cell

88
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Define: Presynaptic cell

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A cell that sends neurotransmitters to another cell across the synapse

89
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Define: Synaptic cleft

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Narrow gap between two excitable cells

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