CHP 11-12 Flashcards
What are the components of the CNS?
Brain and spinal cord.
What are the components of the PNS?
Sensory receptors and nerves.
What are sensory receptors?
Endings of neurons or separate, specialized cells that detect stimuli.
What is a Nerve?
A bundle of axons and their sheaths that connects the CNS to sensory receptors, muscles and glands.
What is a Ganglion?
A collection of neuron cell bodies outside CNS.
What is a Plexus?
An extensive network of axons, and sometimes neuron cell bodies, located outside CNS.
What is the role of the Sensory (afferent) division of the PNS?
Transmits action potentials from receptors towards the CNS.
What is the role of the Motor (efferent) division of the PNS?
Transmits action potentials from the CNS to effectors (muscles, and glands).
The motor division of the PNS consists of these two subdivisions.
The Somatic nervous system and the Autonomic nervous system.
The Autonomic nervous system is a __ neuron system consisting of these 3 divisions: ____, ____, and ____.
Two; sympathetic, parasympathetic, and enteric.
The Somatic nervous system is a __ neuron system.
Single.
The ____ prepares the body for physical activity.
Sympathetic.
What is the role of the Parasympathetic nervous system.
It regulates resting or vegetative functions such as digesting food or emptying the urinary bladder.
What are the cells of the nervous system?
The neuroglia (supports and protects neurons), and Neurons, or nerve cells that receive stimuli and transmit action potentials.
The types of neurons can be classified based on ____ and ____.
Structure; function.
Bipolar neurons are found in the
retina of the eye and nose.
Unipolar neurons are found in the
skin.
____, or ____ neurons transmit APs toward the CNS.
Sensory; afferent.
____, or ____ neurons transmit APs away from the CNS.
Motor; efferent.
What is the role of the somatic nervous system?
Allows us to consciously move our muscles.
What are the major functions of the CNS?
The CNS is the major site for processing information, initiating responses, and integrating mental processes.
What are the major functions of the PNS?
The PNS destecs stimuli and transmits information to the CNS in the form of AP. The PNS conducts AP from the CNS to the muscles and glands.
The axon hillock and the initial segment forms the
Trigger zone.
What role does the Dendrites play?
Dendrites recieve input from other neuron’s axons and from the environment.
The ____ is the source of information for protein synthesis.
Neuron cell body.
What is the function of the trigger zone?
APs are generated at the trigger zone.
What is the role of a neurotransmitter? Where is it stored?
Neurotransmitters are stored within presynaptic terminals. They cross the synaptic cleft to stimulate or inhibit post synaptic cells.
What characteristic makes neuroglia different from neurons?
Neuroglia are the major supporting cells of the CNS; they form the blood-brain barrier, phagocytize foreign substances, produce CSF and form myelin sheaths around axons.
What is the function of the Blood-Brain barrier?
Determines what substances can pass from the blood into the nervous tissue of the brain and spinal cord.
Which 4 types Neuroglia are found in the CNS?
Astrocytes, ependymal cell, microglia, and oligodendrocytes.
Which 2 types of Neuroglia are found in the PNS?
Schwann cells and satellite cells.
What functions do the Astrocytes serve?
Forms the blood-brain barrier and regulates extracellular brain fluid composition.
Astrocytes form feet that
cover the surfaces of neurons and blood vessels and the pia mater.
What functions do Ependymal cells serve?
Ependymal cells line brain ventricles and spinal cord central canal.
Specialized versions of ependymal cells form choroid plexuses. What function do they serve?
Choroid plexuses secrete cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Cilia help move fliud through the cavities of the brain. They have long processes on the basal surface that extend within the brain tissue, may have astrocyte-like functions.
What functions do Microglia cells serve?
Microglia are specialized macrophages that respond to inflammation, phagocytize necrotic tissue, microorganisms, and foreign substances that invade the CNS.
What functions do Oligodendrocytes serve?
Oligodendrocytes form myelin sheaths for multiple axons (80% lipid, 20% protein) which support and insulate axons in the CNS.
What are the Neuroglia of the PNS called?
Schwann cells (neurolemmocytes) and satellite cells.
What functions do Schwann cells serve?
Schwann cells wrap around a portion of only one axon many times to form the myelin sheath.
What functions do Satellite cells serve?
__
Most of the neuron cell bodies in the CNS are found in __.
Grey matter.