Exam 2 Flashcards

1
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Epimysium

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  • surrounds entire muscle cell
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Hippocampus

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  • learning and memory (short term)

- sea horse shaped

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White muscle fiber

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  • glycolytic
  • type II- has rapid short duration
  • pale (chicken breast)
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4
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Troponin

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  • affinity for calcium
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5
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ATP

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  • only source used directly for contractile activities

- return of Na + and K+ after action potential in neuron/Sarcolemma

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Z line

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  • ends of the sarcomere
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7
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Colostrum

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  • first milk
  • contains antibodies or immunoglobulins(IgG or IgM)
  • passive transfer of antibodies in many species

Not humans - placenta
Not birds - egg yolk

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Parietal lobe

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  • movement, orientation
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9
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Plasticity

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  • brain can be remodeled or rewired
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Polarized at rest

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  • inside is negative with respect to outside of the cell

- resting potential = -60 to -90 mV

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Midbrain

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  • mesencephalon
  • controls eye movements
  • auditory and visual reflexes
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12
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Hypophysis

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  • pituitary gland
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13
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Antidiuretic hormone (ADH)/ vasopressin

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  • produced by hypothalamus
  • increases kidney pressure
  • increases water uptake by the kidneys
  • attempts to conserve water
  • promotes reabsorption of water, less urine
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14
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Melanocyte stimulating hormone (MSH)

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  • produced by pituitary gland
  • causes darkening of the skin
  • helps in camouflage
  • production of summer coat in weasels, foxes
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15
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Prion disease

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  • protein + infection

- transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE)

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16
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ATP regenerated by 3 mechanisms

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1) direct phosphorylation of ADP by creatine phosphate
- (10-15 seconds)

2) anaerobic pathway (glycolysis -> lactic acid)
- (30-40 seconds)

3) aerobic respiration
- minutes

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17
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Hypothalamus

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  • controls food intake, water intake
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18
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Amnesia

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  • loss of memory
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19
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Adenohypophysis

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  • anterior pituitary gland
  • glandular, or produces hormones
  • growth hormone
  • prolactin
  • glycoprotein hormones (alpha and beta)
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Hypothalamus

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  • site of synthesis, NCB
  • controls anterior/posterior pituitary glands
  • regulates osmolarity, temperature, hunger, rage
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21
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Cross section of brain

White vs gray matter

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Gray on outside

White on inside

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22
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3 nuclei inside cerebrum

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1) amygdala
2) hippocampus
3) limbic system

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23
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Supra normal period

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  • threshold to rest, since it’s above rest easier to reach threshold
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24
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Depolarized

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  • when active reverses polarity

- Na + in, K+ out

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25
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Muscle cells

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  • are excitable (polarized at rest)
  • conducts electricity (action potential over cell membrane)
  • turns chemical potential energy into mechanical energy
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26
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Active Immunity

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  • you make the antibodies yourself

Ex: vaccinated

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27
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What makes neurons able to conduct electric potential?

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  • the whole cell is electrically charged AT REST
  • negative on inside, positive on outside
  • more potassium on inside, more sodium on outside
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I band

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  • contains only actin

- size changes

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29
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Pons

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  • bridge between spinal chord and brain
  • relay between cerebrum and cerebellum
  • also works with medulla to control respiration
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30
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Neurohypophysis (Pars Nervosa)

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  • posterior pituitary gland
  • neural
  • stores oxytocin and vasopressin
  • hormones produced in hypothalamus and released from here
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31
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Right hemisphere of brain

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  • representational area (sensory info)
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32
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Frontal lobe

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  • problem solving, reasoning, planning
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33
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Somatomotor

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  • output
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34
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Reticular activating system (RAS)

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  • contains Reticular formation
  • sleep disorders
  • if you are narcoleptic or have insomnia have a problem with this
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35
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Gigantism

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  • excess of growth hormone
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36
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Vagues nerve

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  • cranial nerve #10
  • goes to the heart, decrease heart rate
  • major parasympathetic nerve that goes to heart
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37
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Red fiber muscle

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  • oxidative
  • type I- slow sustained fibers
  • dark (chicken legs)
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38
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Proprioceptive

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  • your body keeping track of you

- input of where you are in space

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Actin

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  • thin mylofilaments
  • I band is made up of only this
  • includes troponin and tropomyosin
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40
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Cardiac muscle

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  • have an intrinsic tone/rhythm even in the absence of nervous system
  • pacemaker cells maintain rhythm
  • striated, mono nucleated
  • connected by intercalated disks, interdigitate
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41
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Tropomyosin

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  • covers active/myosin binding sites on actin
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42
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Amygdala

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  • emotions
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43
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Hyperpolarized

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  • when more polarized than at rest
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44
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Bovine spongiform encephalopathies

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  • type of prion disease

- mad cow disease

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45
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Muscle memory

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  • motor learning (cerebrum-> cerebellum)

- riding a bike, throwing frisbee

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46
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2 phases of neuron

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  • once membrane is partially Depolarized it is easier to reach threshold potential

Phase 1) depolarization to action potential= absolute refractory

Phase 2) repolarization to threshold=relative refractory

Phase 3) threshold to rest= supra normal

Phase 4) below rest= subnormal

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47
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M line

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  • center of H zone
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48
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Reflexive/Procedural Long term memory

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  • automatic, not conscious
  • acquire slowly, repetitive
  • muscle memory
  • rules like a period at the end of a sentence
  • Amygdala and cerebellum
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49
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Passive transport

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  • not doing any extra work just eating

- when mother passes on immunoglobulins via colostrum

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50
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Subliminal stimulus

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  • one that does not reach threshold
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51
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Perimysium

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  • surrounds groups of muscle cells, fascicles
52
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Luteinizing hormone (LH)

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  • gamete release
  • glycoprotein hormone
  • gonad stimulating (gonadotropin)
53
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Liminal stimulus

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  • stimulus that reaches threshold
  • rare
  • ex: EPSP
54
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Sarcoplasmic reticulum

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  • encircle and parallel to myofibrils
55
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Chronic wasting disease

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  • type of prion disease

- affects deer and elk

56
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Homunculus

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  • “little person”

- somatotropic representation of the cerebrum between the frontal(motor) and parietal(sensory) lobes

57
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Cerebrum

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  • thought
58
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Pineal gland

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  • sometimes called the third eye

- melatonin reproduction(increases during scotophase) and circadian rhythms (seasonal effects and jet lag)

59
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Meninges

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  • protects the brain from outside has 3 layers

1) dura mater- toughest outer layer of the skull
2) arachnoid- contains CSF (fluid filled)
3) pia mater- contains blood vessels

60
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Axon

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  • output from the nerve cell body to the terminal end
61
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Somatosensory

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  • input
62
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Satiety

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  • when you are full
63
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Cerebellum

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  • “little brain”
  • coordinates movement with pons, spinal chord
  • posture, muscle movements, rate and gait
  • has arbor vitae
64
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Endomysium

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  • surrounds individual skeletal muscle cells
65
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Fast fibers

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  • produce rapid, powerful contractions of short duration

- obtain their ATP from anaerobic glycolysis

66
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Narcoleptic

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  • sleep during the day
67
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Electro encephalogram (EEG)

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  • measures brain activity
68
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Neurons vs electric wire

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  • neurons conduct electricity slower than the electric wire

- neurons do not lose any energy in conduction

69
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Central nervous system

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  • encased in bone

- consists of the brain and spinal chord

70
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Cerebellum

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  • motor movements
71
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Specific Dynamic Action (SDA)

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  • post prandial (after a meal)
  • meal is digesting and body temperature goes up

Which affects most?

  1. Proteins
  2. Fat
  3. Carbohydrates
72
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Neuron

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  • single cell

- functional unit of the nervous system

73
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Subnormal period

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  • below rest in the refractory period area
74
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Thyrotropin releasing hormone

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  • released by the hypothalamus for regulation
75
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Smooth muscle

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  • non striated
  • involuntary muscles found in the walls of organs
  • each smooth muscle has one nucleus (mono-nucleated)
76
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Temporal lobe

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  • perception and recognition of auditory and olfactory stimuli, memory and speech
77
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Sarcoplasm

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  • cytoplasm of myocyte, contains myoglobin and calcium ions

- inside muscle cell membrane

78
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Brain stem

A

1) medulla oblongata
2) pons
3) midbrain

79
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Olfactory nerve

A
  • cranial nerve #1/12 (sensory)

- sense of smell

80
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Order of muscle cell

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1) epimysium
2) perimysium
3) muscle bundles (fascicles)
4) endomysium
5) muscle fiber surrounded by Sarcolemma*
6) sarcomere
7) myofibril
8) myofilaments

81
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Occipital lobe

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  • visual processing

- very important in birds

82
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Absolute refractory period

A
  • amount of time the action potential takes

- no stimulus, no matter how strong will illicit a response

83
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Threshold potential

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  • usually -30 to - 50 mV
  • all or none once reached there WILL be an action potential
  • opens voltage gated Na channels, allows it to flow in
  • decreases membrane resistance, increases conductance
84
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Myosin

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  • thick mylofilaments

- H zone is made up of ONLY this

85
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Sarcolemma

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  • the membrane surrounding the muscle fibers

- muscle cell membrane

86
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Dwarfism

A
  • deficiency in growth hormone
87
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H zone

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  • contains only myosin

- size changes

88
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Schwann cells

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  • separated by nodes of ranvier or intermodal spaces
  • myelin sheath
  • produce myelin
  • in the PNS
89
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Ipsilateral

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  • same side
90
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Slow fibers

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  • can contract for long periods of time
  • fatigue resistant
  • abundant mitochondria
  • extensive capillary supply
  • high concentration of myoglobin
91
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Nodes of ranvier

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  • intermodal spaces

- separate Schwann cells

92
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Sarcomere

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  • functional unit of skeletal muscle

- length is not constant

93
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T-tubules

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  • perpendicular to myofibrils

- indentations of the Sarcolemma

94
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Adrenocorticotropic hormone

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  • stimulates adrenal cortex with cortisol

- glycoid protein hormone

95
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Insomnia

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  • difficulty falling asleep
96
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Afferent nerves

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  • go TO the CNS
97
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Optic nerve (chiasma)

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  • cranial nerve #2 (sensory)

- connects eye nerves to brain, vision

98
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Temporal neurons

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  • one stimulus after another
99
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Efferent nerves

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  • AWAY from the CNS
100
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Ataxia

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  • when we have problems with the cerebellum, or movement

- normally ipsilateral

101
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Trigeminal nerve

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  • cranial nerve # 5

- has to do with all of your facial movement and chewing

102
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Creutzfeldt-Jason Disease

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  • occurred in humans, cannibals

- type of prion disease

103
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Spatial neurons

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  • stimulus converge on each other
104
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A band

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  • contains both actin and myosin

- size does not change

105
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Anterograde amnesia

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  • cannot form new memories

Ex: Diazepam(Valium) or halcion

106
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Left hemisphere of the brain

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  • interpretive and speech area (reading, writing, speaking)
107
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Oxytocin

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  • produced by hypothalamus
  • milk letdown, milk ejection

Females: uterine contractions
Males: ejaculation

108
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Association areas

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  • put things together differently

- long term memories are stored in the appropriate sections of this

109
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Repolarized

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  • when returned to resting potential

- Na+ out, K+ in

110
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Thyroid stimulating hormone

A
  • release of thyroid hormone

- glycoprotein hormone

111
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Retrograde amnesia

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  • lose long term memory
112
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Prefrontal lobotomy

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  • removes tensions, worry
  • frontal lobe
  • problem is that people would not worry about stopping walking before reaching a wall for ex
113
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Skeletal muscle

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  • striated, multinucleated
  • voluntary
  • muscle attached to the Skeleton for voluntary movement
114
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Nuclei

A
  • collection of neurons with common functions
115
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Reticular formation

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  • what wakes you up, makes you alert and conscious
  • activates the entire brain, wakes brain up
  • activates cerebral cortex Via thalamus
116
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Leptin

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  • produced by fat cells
  • eating drive is off, metabolism increase
  • delays puberty bc super thin don’t have body reserves to support another life
117
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Limbic system

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  • Amygdala + hippocampus
  • link between cognitive (reason) and emotions (fear)
  • long term memory is stored in association areas
118
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Dendrite

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  • input through the cell
119
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Terminal cistarnae

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  • bulbous ends of the Sarcoplasmic reticulum
120
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Nerve cell body

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  • where the nucleus is

- soma

121
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Peripheral Nervous System

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  • spinal nerves (to and from spinal chord)
  • cranial nerves (to and from the brain)
  • autonomic nervous system (sympathetic and parasympathetic)
122
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Medulla oblongata

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  • involved in reflex/vegetative functions such as breathing, HR, vomiting, crying, swallowing, righting yourself
  • control of involuntary centers (nuclei)
  • without this you are vegetative, will need life support
123
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Declarative/Explicit long term memory

A
  • requires conscious attention for recall

- temporal lobe

124
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Follicle stimulating hormone (FSH)

A
  • conversion of androgen to estrogen
  • glycoprotein hormone
  • gonad stimulating (gonadotropin)
125
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Relative refractory period

A
  • during repolarization phase until reaches the threshold

- a larger than usual stimulus is required to start a new action potential

126
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Cerebrum

A
  • has sensory, motor and association areas(memory)

- has 4 lobes

127
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Andrenergic receptors

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  • alpha and beta

- SNS