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Nervous System characteristics

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-Fast acting
-Electrical impulses
(As opposed to endocrine system)
-Derived from Neural (plate) Ectoderm, or Neural Crest Ectoderm

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Two types of Nervous Syste,

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CNS, PNS

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CNS

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Central Nervous System (CNS) = brain and spinal cord (dorsal hollow nerve cord)
neural plate ectoderm

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PNS

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Peripheral Nervous System = all nerves that exit or enter the CNS (always paired, right and left)
neural crest ectoderm
crainal nerves,

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Functional Division

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Somatic vs. Visceral

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somatic afferent

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carry sensory impulses to the CNS from skeletal muscle, from skeletal muscle to the brain

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somatic efferent (ex)

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motor output from CNS to Skeletal Muscles (Voluntary) push them away from you

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visceral afferent

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carry sensory impulses to the CNS from blood vessels or internal organs, from organs to the brain

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visceral efferent

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involves a preganglionic and postganglionic neuron and travels to smooth muscle, cardiac muscle and glands, autonomic motor output to internal organs and glands

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somatic (concious) nervous system

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Sensory (afferent) nerves receive input from:

  • Body wall (skin, musculature)
  • Appendages
  • Motor nerves (efferent) send messages to musculature of body wall (somatopleure-made of ecto and meso)
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visceral (unconcious) nervous system

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Visceral Sensory:
Receive signals from organs of splanchnopleure(from meso-endo) also a bit of an ectoderm from this nervous system (hunger, discomfort, full bladder, some taste, some smell) unconcious signal to brain to you

Visceral Motor - automatic nervous system (8 lecture)

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organization of the nervous system

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Somatic nervous system also splits into two

  • Somatic afferent
  • Somatic efferent
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Basic facts about Neurons

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  • They have ability to respond to stimuli. (change in cell membrane, they can take that change and create a signal)
  • They have ability to CONDUCT AN ELECTRICAL SIGNAL.
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SIGNAL PATHWAYS

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Something causes change in property of neuron cell membrane.

This causes an electrical signal to enter cell, usually via dendrite(s). on or near cell body.

Travel along cell.

Usually leave via axon.
SIGNAL DEGRADATION(lost of strength) IS REPRESSED DUE TO INSULATION BY MYELIN.
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INSULATION OF NEURONS

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To prevent electrical charge and current from “leaking out”, axons are insulated by a special type of material called MYELIN. electerial and physical border

-preventing electerical charge for leaking out

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SCHWANN CELLS.

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In PNS, myelin is produced by neuroGLIAL cells called

only happens in specific sports

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OLIGODENDROCYTES.

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In CNS, myelin is produced by neuroGLIAL cells called
only happens in specific spots

can cover

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neurofibral NODES

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Layers of myelin are wrapped around most of axon. Unlike that of an electrical cord, the covering is not continuous. These brief interruptions are called neurofibral nodes

at node, you can access the axolemma, ions can move

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GANGLION (plural = ganglia)

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(Frequently) cell bodies are concentrated in a spot along a nerve, forming a swelling called a

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NUCLEUS

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In the CNS, a collection of cell bodies is called a

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What is said to be POLARIZED

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The plasma membrane (cell membrane)

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Nervous System divides

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into CNS PNS

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CNS

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brain/spinal cord

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PNS

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somatic, visceral

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Somatic/Visceral

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somatic: somatic afferent/somatic efferent
visceral: visceral afferent/ visceral efferent or ANS autonomic nervous system

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ANS (visceral efferent)

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parasympathic/sympathetic

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basic anatomy of a neuron

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  • cell body-nucleus
  • off of cell body, processes, dendrites where you recieve a stimulus
  • long process, axon, covered with cell membrane: axolemma
  • axon divides into telodendria
  • axon communicates and synapses
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different neural morphologies

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sensory: pseudounipolar(unipolar)
cell body is off set of the axon
stimilus dendrites, pass cell body, to terminals

multi:cell body located at one end of the axon, singal generates down

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important concept of a neuron

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communicates on or near the cell body, for motor neurons

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what is the different between Schwann cells in the PNS and OLIGODENDROCYTES in the CNS is?

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one Schwann cell will only cover one portion of a single axon

oligodendenrocytes, several processes that can cover multiple segments of multiple axons

but still perform same function

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When you have many axons (neurons ) gathered together in the PNS is called?

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Nerve

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when you have many axons (neurons)gathered together in the CNS is called?

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Tract

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Swelling in a nerve, a collection of cell bodies in the PNS is called a

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ganglia, ganglion

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swelling, a collection of cell bodies in the CNS is called a

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nucleus

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PHYSIOLOGY OF NEURONAL IMPULSES

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Neurons “maintain a resting electrical charge” to them, charge is centered around the cell membrane -resting membrane potential when cell isn’t doing anything

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The plasma membrane (cell membrane) is said to be?

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Polarized, because one side is a different charge than the other

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what is the charge of a neuron of it’s resting potential?

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negative 70 millivolts (-70 mv)

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why is the resting potential of a neuron at -70 mv?

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the difference in charge between the outside of the cell and the inside of the cell.

the outside is 70 mv more positive than the outside or the inside of the cell is 70 mv more negative than the outside

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the charge difference is due too?

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charge difference is due to the differential distribution of charged ions on either side of the membrane ,

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what are the primary ions involved in the -70 mv resting electrical charge are?

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potassium (K+) and sodium (Na+)

-both positive

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is energy required to keep the neuron’s charge difference the same?

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yes

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how do you maintian the -70 mv electrical different

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through active transport, Sodium ions are actively pumped out of the cell

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how does the charge difference across the membrane works? ____-___pump?

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the more sodium outside, more postivie outside the cell, outside is more positive becomes -70 mv more than the cell

sodium out, potassium in

sodium potassium pump

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what is the job of the sodium potassium pump?

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pump functions CONTINUOUSLY to maintain the charged membrane , powered by ATP

  • two potassium pumped in
  • three sodium pumped out makes the different -70
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purpose of leak channels

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achieve equilibrium

relief channel, pumping sodium out, sodium leak channels allow back into the cell, pumping some postive out, can come back in and can come back to -70, potassium leak channel, can leak out

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electrochemical gradient for potassium

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-90mV potassium naturally wants to leave the cell

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electrochemical gradient for sodium

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+66mV sodium naturally wants to go into the cell, completely reverses the membrane potential

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where is sodium concentration higher? inside or outside

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outside, higher sodium concentration

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what direction does the electro chemical gradient of sodium flow?

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inside the cell

-sodium is postive, electrical gradient inside the cell and concentration getting sodium inside VERY strong gradient

both of them causing sodium to go inside the cell

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in order to trasmit an electorical signal you have to?

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have a change in that membrane potential

-generate impulse

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what triggers an impulse?

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A CHANGE IN THE ELECTRICAL POTENTIAL (the –70 mV charge) across the cell membrane

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This CHANGE IN THE ELECTRICAL POTENTIAL is usually cased by a change in

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the PERMEABILITY OF THE CELL MEMBRANE to those particular ions, allows ions to flow more easily, makes the charge difference across the membrane

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What does a stimulus do?

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it causes the change of the plasma membrane

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a stimulus could be?

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a signal from a neighboring neuron

or a receptor cell that changes it’s shape that will change the permeability of a membrane

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what does the perm. change allow?

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ions to move across membrane.

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chemically gated channels

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AcH binds, and channel open, binds of receptor site, memebrane is more permerable to those ions

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voltage gated channel

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-70 gate is closed, -60 the channel is opened,proper voltage, ions can flow through, you can not only open one of the gates, +30 channel inactivated, changes permertability of ions

electronic lock

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mechnically gated channel

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for hearing, mechinically change, or pressure when something lands on you, is a mechnical even that causes this channel to open,

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If a stimulus is strong enough (or if enough stimuli combine) to trigger an impulse, it is referred to as a

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threshold stimulus

60
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you can have a ______ than can change the membrane potential but it might not generate an _______ ______

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stimulus

electrical signal

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what happens when theshold stimulus is reached?

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permeability of the membrane changes enough to allow Na+ ions to flood in , this thres. stimulus is an electrical value,
** for voltage gated, open up voltage gated for sodium-> sodium goes into cell

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graded potential (look at lecture 6 slide 27)

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Tiny stimulus-not much sodium entering, membrane potential wont get much higher

Strong stimulus, lot of channels, more sodium to enter, membrane potential, go away from -70 become more postive
goes from -60, -65, eventually to 70

Stimulus, changes permability

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Permeability Change allows ions to move across the membrane when

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-the inside is more negative
-if there is more positive Na+ outside, they will tend to flood in
-this makes the distribution of ions relative to the cell membrane
-

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what is depolarization?

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Changing the “polarized” condition of the membrane

65
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what is an action potential?

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when depolarization initiates along an axon

66
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how does an action potential work?

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once a small region of an axon is depolarized, it can stimulate an adjacent area,
stimulates the next area, so on and so on

67
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action potention

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sodium, high to low

describe loca

68
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saltory propagation

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decreases the difference, starts at -70, causing it to enter and travel, reaches thereshold, that second node can depolrize, sodium comes in, another local current and exact same thing happens

  • movement of sodium, flooding it in and creating current, signal jump nodes to nodes
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important functions of myelin

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Insulates axon so that it is easier to maintain differential resting potential.

  1. Speeds up conduction of action potentials.
  2. Prevents “cross-talk” between different neurons grouped in a single nerve. (remember sensory and motor signals are traveling in different directions).
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the nervous system is an

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ELECTRICAL SYSTEM

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chemicals to communicate between cells?

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NEUROTRANSMITTERS.

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important neurotransmitters

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acetylcholine (ACh

73
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describe neurotransmitter release

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when you reach telodenria, calcium ions instead of sodium, waiting at telondria-where neurotransmitters,

74
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what does depolrization happen in a neurotransmitter release?

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will release neurotransmitters,
When depolarization of an action potential gets to end of a neuron, it still allows the influx of positively charged ions.
But in this case, the positively charged ion is CALCIUM—Ca2+

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what is a synaptic cleft

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They are released into the space between neurons,
YNAPTIC CLEFT is very small, so diffusion is nearly instantaneous (less than a millisecond).
They bind with receptors on the next neuron

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what does calcium cause in neurotransmitter relrease and what is contained?

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Ca2+ causes storage vesicles at end of axon to fuse with plasma membrane.
The vesicles contain neurotransmitters.

77
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what happens after the neurotransmitter release?
what does it change?
what does it cause?

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they bind with receptors for chemical gated channels on the next neuron-on the next postsynaptic cell, they change the configuration of the cell membrane of the postsynaptic cell/This causes a temporary, localized change in the permeability of the postsynaptic cell, this is the stimulus for the postsynaptic cell

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result of cleft being small

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Neurotransmitters are broken down and recycled VERY quickly (MILLISECONDS).

cleft clears out, singal can stop, neurotransmitter no longer in that cleft

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neurotransmitter can work?

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directly or indirectly

80
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describe direct neurtransmitter

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changing ion concentrations across the ions, affects membrane potentinal

81
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describe indirect neurotransmitters

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changing the metabolism of the cell, this is very quick, does not last beyond what you do at that one time, changing actual metabolism cell, longer lasting affect/you can affect ion channels through this, usually actually changing the number of channel you have,

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direct

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involve a receptor that is part of a chemically gated channel, open up ion channel, going to change the ion concentrations, ions out or not, iontropic once its released, effect stops as soon as it is released, quick, stops after that one neurotransmitter

83
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direct effect neurotransmitters

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ACh, glycine, aspartate, glutamate, GABA.

binding ACH, some ions can enter, changiong ions directky

84
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indirict

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second messeger system-longer term affect in the cell, neurotransmitter bind, form pathways, change metabolism of the cell, cellular process that are occuring, production of channels in plasma membrane, slower

85
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indirect effect neurotransmitters (also direct)

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, nitric oxide, carbon monoxide, glutamate, GABA.

effect of neurotransmitter deprends on the receptor but not the neurotransmitter
DEPENDENT ON RECEPTOR
if it binds inderct, indirect
direct, direct

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excitation in a postsynaptic response,

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Influx of Ca2+; decreased passage of Cl- (wants to enterthe cell, preventing cell from getting more negative) K+(inside of the cell will stay more positive; metabolic changes; change in number of receptors. Reach thereshold easier membrane becomes a little more positive, becomes easier to reach thereshold
-easier to depolirize

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inhibitory cell

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makes membrane potential more negative, more difficult to reach thereshold
-how relative refactory works

Influx of Cl-; increased passage of K+; metabolic changes; change in number of receptors

88
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describe excitation and inhibition:

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Can be excitatory reach thereshold or inhibitory(remove number of doors). Adds greater control and subtlety to nervous function.
or opposite

89
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BUT, if there is insulation in the way, how can ions move due to depolarization?

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Remember, the NODES. There are intermittent spots without insulation

90
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how do nodes help in speed?

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Sodium channels are concentrated near the NODES, and the depolarization literally skips from node to node, increasing speed of transmission significantly.

91
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simply, what is the refracotry phase?

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During this period, that particular region of the axon can’t respond to stimuli.
This is due to the inactivation of the voltage-gated sodium channels.

92
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Shortly after a region is depolarized what does the cell want to do?=

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the sodium pump works very hard to re-establish the resting potential.

93
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refactory phase: look at picture slide 34 lecture 6 what are the important implications?

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A spot just stimulated can’t be immediately restimulated, so only the next spot can be. In otherwords, a signal can’t double back on itself.
2. Axonal Transmission is thus UNIDIRECTIONAL (look this up)

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