Check Your Understanding - Synaptic Potentials & Neurotransmitters Flashcards
What is the difference between an excitatory and inhibitory synapse?
What is the difference between a chemical and electrical synapse? What advantages and disadvantages do they have on each other?
Describe the effect Ca2+ has on the SNARE complex
What is the difference between an ionotropic and metabotropic receptor?
Describe two mechanisms in which neurotransmitters are removed from the synaptic cleft. What would happen if these mechanisms no long worked properly?
What ions are involved in the initiation of an EPSP? What ions are involved in the initiation of an IPSP?
When an EPSP is generated, will an action potential always follow? Why or why not?
Define summation. Describe the difference between temporal and spatial summation.
Describe two mechanisms in which drugs can alter neurotransmitter concentrations in the synaptic cleft.
What is the function of ACh? Where is it found? What degraded it?
What is the function of epinephrine? Where is it synthesized?
What is the key difference between glutamate and GABA’s roles as neurotransmitters?
