Final Flashcards
Heartworm
Roundworm
Dogs
AMPA Receptor
Post. Cell
- Glutamate binds
- Increase gK and gNa
- Causes local current flow –> remove Mg blok from NMDA
Tissues lining organs
from visceral mesoderm
Leeches in Medicine
- Amputation of small body part
- Cannot repair venous supply… swelling and blood accumulation
- Use leech to remove excess fluid
Castrate dog and treat with ground testis fluids
- Decrease FSH
Pseudocoelomates
- Roundworms
- Technically have a closed cavity between the endo and mesoderms
- But is not surrounded by meoderm as we have come to expect from body cavities
- Only longitudinal muscle + cuticle
(Ascaris, hookworm, filarial worms, guinea worm, tichinosis)
Neuroplasticity on the Postsynaptic Membrane
- Glutamate binds to post. cell
- First it binds to AMPA…. increase gNa and gK generating local current flow
- Local current flow removes the Mg block on the NMDA channel
- Glutamate and glycine bind to NMDA and increase gCa
- Ca creates calmodulin which sets up a phosphorylation cascade and causes protein function
G-Protein Coupled Receptors
- Hormone binds to receptor
- Receptor stimulates G-protein
- G-protein turns on adenylate cyclase (AC)
- AC turns AMP –> cAMP
- cAMP binds to protein kinase which phosphorylates proteins #cascade
Scolex
Mouth of a tapeworm
Primary Consumers
- Eat producers
- Eaten by 2nd who eaten by 3rd (trophic level 4)
Percent N2 in atmosphere
79%
Luteal Phase
- Surge in LH from estrogen positive feedback
- Corpus lutem makes estrogen and porgesterone
- Progesterone does negative feedback on HPA…. keep FSH and LH low
Filarial Worms - River Blindess
Roundworms
- Black fly is the intermediate
- Larvae get into human eye and mess with retina
Hemicastrate
- Initial increase in FSH
- Other teste comenstes
- Eventually decrease in FSH and sperm production rises
Sperm secrete inhibin…. decrease FSH
Blood Fluke
Flat Worm
- Mate in humans… we poop eggs
- Eggs get into water via snails
- Worm can swim and drill into human skin
Bats and Cactus Flowers
Symbiotic
- Cactus flowers bloom at night… give nectar to bats
- Bats pollenate other flowers
Elephantiasis
- Filarial Worm (roundworm)
- In lymph ducts
- Causes swelling/fluid accumulation
Ascaris
- Pseudocoelomate
- Most common worm in humans
Rice Paddies and Nitrogen
- Rice paddy farms have anavaena a nitrogen fixing bacteria
- Shares N with rice plants
Mullerian Mimicry
- One species imitates a pattern that can diffuse apprehension
- Predators are wary of coloration in wasps and snakes
Roundworms
- Only longitudinal muscle
- Thrash to move
- Secrete outer layer called a cuticle which is very elastic… PE helps with motion
Reinnervation Experiments
- Type I cell.. remove type I axon and innervate with type II axon
- Cell is now type II
- Happens @ ACh receptor cite
Commensal
One organism benefits and the other doesn’t mind
Denervation Experiments
- Innervation from axon causes muscle contraction
- Gives info for where to put ACh receptors
- Remove axon, ACh channels appear randomly on surface of muscle cells
NMDA Receptor
- For Glutamate
- Has an Mg block
- Mg block removed by LCF due to glutamate binding to AMPA and increasing the gK and gNa
- NMDA increase gCa
Hippocampus
PTH
- Released when Ca is low
- Helps raise Ca
- Decrease Ca in urine (kidney)
- Increase osteocytic osteolysis (bone)
- Helps Vit D action with Ca absorb in gut (SI)
Denitrify
- Organisms die
- Other organisms eat dead things and release N2 back into the environment
Guinea Worm
Matchstick worm
- Adult worms drive their victims to gt into the water so they can lay eggs
How tetanus works
- Hold internal tension to stretch the SEC completely
- Allows enough time for external tension to catch up
Heterocysts
- Specialized nitrogen fixing cells
- Found in bacteria
Adaptations for a parsitic lifestyle
- Ability to infect
- Ability to inhabit
- Reduced sensory system
Decomposers/ Detrivores
Are not a trophic level
PDE
Phosphodiesterase
- cAMP –> AMP
- Inhibited by coffee
Segmented Worms
- First kind of segmented animal
- Segments = redundancy
- If it gets split, it has all the parts it needs to survive
- Each segment has a small kidney and a nervous system
Acacia Trees and Ants
Symbiotic
- Tree grows protein rich knobs to feed ants that live in its thorns
- Ants protect tree
Cycling
- Intrinsic rate of reproduction until resources exhauted… hit carrying capacity
- Cycling reflected throughout foodchain (Hare + Lynx)… population levels cary together.
Facilitation
- With a lot of action potentials, increase the Ca insde the presynaptic membrane
- This makes it easier to exocytose a neurotransmitter
Kandel
FLAT PiG
Anterior Pituitary Hormones
FSH
LH
ACTH
TSH
Prolactin
GH
Ach Release –> Muscle Contraction
- Neuron releases ACh which binds to a nicotinic channel
- Increase gNa and gK –> local current flow
- LCF –> Action potential in muscle membrane down T-tubule
- Action potential stiumlates DHP which interacts with RyR in the sarcoplasmic reticulum
- RyR releases Ca… signals crossbridge
Coelomates
- Mesoderm lined body cavities and organs
- Segemented worms and most other shit
Ecological Pyramid
- Shrinks by an order of magnitude for each lelve of the food chain
- Size represents biomass (stored energy)
- The only energy that gets passed up to a consumer is that which becomes part of the body… the other 90% is used for metabolism
Bastesian Mimicry
- Species imitates another species that is harmful
- Viceroy butterfly immitates yucky monarch
- Only works if there are more monarchs than viceroys
Tichinosis
Roundworm
From pork
Symbiotic
- Mutualistic
- Two organisms live in intimate association
Mesenteries
- Areas at which cavitiy linings and organ linings meet
Hirudinea Worms
Leeches
- Segmented
- Fresh water
- Eat blood
- Move via their suckers and take steps
- Blades in mouth cut into skin and release anesthetic and anticoagulant
Adaptation of Endoparasites
- Attachment structure
- Resist digestion
- Can penetrate the body
- Increased ability to live in anaerobic conditions
- Reduced digestive ability (because surrounded by nutrients)
- Redduced sensory systems
- Huge reproductive potential
Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria
- Contain heterocysts
- Convert N2 –> NHx and introduce it into the food chain
Producers
- Trophic level 1
- Turn light into chemical energy
Succession
- If a given area is undisturbed, organisms will increase in size/coplexity/stored energy until reaching a climax community
Follicular Phase
- Peak of FSH makes follicles develop
- Follicles release estrogen which does + deeback on HPA…. leads to Increase LH
Parasitic
- One organism benefits at the expense of the other
Acoelomates
- Only have gut cavity
- Flatworms, helminths
Tissue lining cavities
from pariety mesoderm
Castrate Dog and treat with testosterone
- Remove testosterone
- Increase in FSH and LH
Treat with Testosterone: decrease in LH only
Flatworm
- Does not have a body cavity
- Intestinal tract
- Mouth but no anus… food and waste through the mouth
- Kidney structuers called flame cells throughout body
- Nitrogenous waste diffuses through the skin
- Good at regeneration (can cut in half and will grow back)
Smooth Muscle Contraction
- Increase [Ca] in cytoplasm
- Ca binds to CaM
- Ca-CaM activates myosin kinase
- Myosin kinase phosphorylates serines on myosin (covalent regulation)
- Crossbridge –> tension
How do you lower [Ca] in muscle cytoplasm?
Ca Pump
- Use ATP to pump Ca from cyto to SR