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E3 Synapses Flashcards

1
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What are the types of synaptic vesicles?

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small, clear synaptic vesicles
small vesicles with a dense core
large vesicles with a dense core

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What does the small, clear synaptic vesicles contain?

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Acetylcholine
Glycine
GABA
Glutamate

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What does the small vesicles with a dense core contain ?

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Catecholamines

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What does the large vesicles with a dense core contain?

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Neuropeptides

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What does an influx of calcium activate?

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  • Synaptotagmin
  • partially assembled SNARE complex
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What is synaptotagmin?

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Calcium sensor

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7
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What targets SNAREs?

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Bacterial neurotoxins responsible for botulism and tetanus

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What does the synaptic terminal of the chemical synapse release?

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Neurotransmitters

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9
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What do the neurotransmitters bind to?

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postsynaptic membrane

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10
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What does the chemical synapse produce?

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Temporary, localized change in permeability or function of postsynaptic

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What does the chemical synapse changes affect?

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Affect cell, depending on nature and number of stimulated receptors

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12
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How fast are the neurotransmitter responses?

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Rapid

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13
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What are neurotransmitters linked to?

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Ion channel signaling

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14
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What are neuromodulators linked to?

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G proteins

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15
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How fast are neuromodulators?

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Slower than neurotransmitters

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What do neuromodulators do?

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Alter synaptic effectiveness/strength

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17
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What kind of potentials are postsynaptic potentials?

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Graded potentials developed in a postsynaptic cell

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18
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How are graded potentials generated in postsynaptic cell?

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Response to neurotransmitters

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19
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What are the types of postsynaptic potentials?

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excitatory and inhibitory

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What are excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSP)?

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Graded depolarization of postsynaptic membrane

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What are inhibitory postsynaptic potentials (IPSP)?

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Graded hyperpolarization of postsynaptic membrane

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22
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What is effected by a neurotransmitter?

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Postsynaptic membrane

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What does the effect of a neurotransmitter depend on?

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Depends on receptor, not neurotransmitter

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24
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Example of neurotransmitter that effects postsynaptic membrane?

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Acetylcholine

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25
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What does Acetylcholine promote?

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Action potentials

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26
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What does Acetylcholine inhibit?

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Cardiac neuromuscular junctions

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27
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What are the known or presumed neurotransmitters or neuromodulators?

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  1. Acetylcholine
  2. Biogenic amines
  3. Amino acids
  4. Neuropeptides
  5. Miscellaneous
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28
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what are the biogenic amines?

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Catecholamine
Serotonin (5-HT)
Histamine

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29
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What are examples of catecholamines?

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Dopamine (DA)
Norepinephrine (NE)
Epinephrine (Epi)

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30
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What are examples of neuropeptides?

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endogenous opioids
oxytocin
tachykinins

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31
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What is part of the miscellaneous neurotransmitters or neuromodulators?

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Gases (NO)
Purines (adenosine and ATP)

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32
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What is synaptic plasticity?

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the ability of synapses to strengthen or weaken over time

33
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What does synaptic plasticity change?

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increases or decreases in their activity

34
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What does synaptic plasticity result from?

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alteration of the number of neurotransmitter receptors located on a synapse

35
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What is synaptic plasticity responsible for?

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upregulation and downregulation

36
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What are the mechanisms that cooperate to achieve synaptic plasticity?

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  • Changes in quantity of neurotransmitters released
  • Changes in how effectively cells respond to neurotransmitters
37
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What does the synaptic plasticity of both excitatory and inhibitory synapses depend on?

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postsynaptic calcium release

38
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What are the presynaptic factors to determine the synaptic strength?

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  • Availability of neurotransmitters
  • Axon terminal membrane potential
  • Axon terminal calcium
  • Activation of membrane receptors on presynaptic terminal
  • Certain drugs and diseases, which act via the above mechanisms
39
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What is also associated with the availability of neurotransmitter factor?

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  • availability of precursor molecules
  • amount or activity of the rate limiting enzymes in the pathway for neurotransmitter synthesis
40
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What are the different types of membrane receptors on the presynaptic terminal?

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  • Axo-axonic synapses
  • Autoreceptors
  • Other receptors
41
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What are autoreceptors?

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When active, reduce further release of neurotransmitters

42
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What are the postsynaptic factors to determine the synaptic strength?

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  • Immediate past history of electrical state of postsynaptic membrane
  • Effects of other neurotransmitters/neuromodulators acting on postsynaptic neuron
  • Up/down regulation and desensitization of receptors
  • Certain drugs and diseases
43
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What is an example of immediate past history of electrical state of postsynaptic membrane?

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Excitation/inhibition from temporal or spatial summation

44
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T/F Distinctions between neurotransmitters and neuromodulators are not always clear

45
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How long are the actions of the neuromodulators/neuropeptides?

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prolonged actions

46
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What do neuromodulators/neuropeptides do during these prolonged actions?

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  • Long term changes in number of neural receptors
  • Long term opening/closing of certain ion channels
  • Changes in number and sizes of synapses
47
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What part of the brain deals with neuron plasticity?

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Hippocampus

48
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What are the types of synaptic transmitters?

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  • small-molecule, rapidly acting transmitters
  • neuropeptides, slowly acting transmitters or growth factors
  • miscellaneous
49
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What are the class 1 small-molecule, rapidly acting transmitters?

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acetylcholine

50
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What are the class 2 small-molecule, rapidly acting transmitters?

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Biogenic amines

51
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What are the class 3 small-molecule, rapidly acting transmitters?

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Amino acids

52
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What are the class 4 small-molecule, rapidly acting transmitters?

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Dissolved gases

53
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What are the neuropeptides, slowly acting transmitters or growth factors?

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  • Hypothalamic-releasing hormones
  • Pituitary peptides
  • Peptides that act on gut and brain
  • From other tissues
  • Purines
  • Lipids
54
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What is part of the miscellaneous category of the synaptic transmitters?

55
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What are the 2 types of amino acids that act as neurotransmitters?

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Excitatory
Inhibitory

56
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What are the excitatory neurotransmitters?

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Glutamate
Aspartate

57
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What are the inhibitory neurotransmitters?

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  • GABA (gamma-aminobutyric)
  • Glycine
58
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What are the dissolved gasses of class 4 neurotransmitters?

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  • Nitric oxide
  • Carbon monoxide
59
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What are the hypothalamic releasing hormones?

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  • Thyrotropic releasing hormone
  • Somatostatin
  • Luteinizing hormone releasing hormone
60
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What does somatostatin target?

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anterior pituitary and GI tract

61
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What are luteinizing releasing hormones?

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Ovulation and corpus luteum

62
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What are the pituitary peptides?

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  • ACTH (Adrenocorticotropic hormone)
  • Melanocyte stimulating hormone
  • Prolactin
  • Vasopressin
  • Oxytocin
63
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What is vasopressin?

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antidiuretic hormone (ADH)
- retains water

64
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What is oxytocin?

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plays a role in social bonding, sexual reproduction, childbirth, and the period after childbirth

65
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What are the purines that act as neuropeptides?

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  • ATP, GTP
  • Adenosine
66
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What are the lipids that act as neuropeptides?

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Anandamide

67
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What are anandamides derived from?

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metabolism of arachidonic acid

68
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What system would you find anandamides?

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endogenous cannabinoid system

69
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What neuropeptides act on the gut and brain?

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  • Substance P
  • Opioids (endogenous)
  • Gastrin
  • Nerve growth factor
  • Neuropeptide Y
  • Neurotensin
  • Insulin
  • Glucagon
70
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What are the opioids that act on the gut and brain?

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  • Enkephalins
  • Endorphins
  • Dynorphin
71
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What is substance P?

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pain
- free nerve endings

72
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What is a ionotropic receptor?

A

form from an ion channel pore

73
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What is a metabotropic receptor?

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indirectly linked with ion channels on the plasma membrane of the cell through signal transduction mechanisms, often G proteins

74
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What is inherently metabotropic?

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G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs)

75
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What do neurotransmitters and neuromodulators have a direct effect on?

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Membrane ion channels

76
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What are the direct effects on the membrane ion channels?

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Ionotropic effect

Ex. acetylcholine, glycine, aspartate

77
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What do neurotransmitters and neuromodulators have an indirect effect on?

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  • via G proteins
  • via intracellular receptors and enzymes
78
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What are the indirect effects via G proteins?

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Metabotropic or Ionotropic

Ex. Epinephrine, norepinephrine, dopamine, histamine, GABA

79
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What are the examples of the indirect effects via intracellular receptors and enzymes?

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Lipid-soluble gases (NO, CO)

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