How nerves work

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Sensory information travels IN via

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dorsal root

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motor information travels OUT via

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ventral root

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afferent

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sensory

dorsal

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efferent

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motor

ventral

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dendrites

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receive information

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axon hillock

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triggers action potential

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Axon

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sends action potential

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Axon terminals

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release transmitter

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90% cells in the CNS are

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glia

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Astrocytes

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maintain the external environment for the neurones

surround blood vessels and produce the blood brain barrier

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Oligodendrocytes

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form myelin sheaths in the CNS

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Microglia

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phagocytic hoovers mopping up infection

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Graded potentials

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decided when an action potential should be fired

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Resting membrane potential

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keeps cells ready to respond

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the inside of a cell is ……….. relative to the outside

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negative

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RMP of most cells is

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-70 mV

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equilibrium potential

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the membrane potential at which the electrical gradient is exactly equal and opposite to the concentration gradient

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the concentration gradient determines the

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equilibrium potential

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Nernst equation predicts the

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equilibrium potential

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The RMP is dominated by the resting permeability of

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potassium (K+)

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interior of cell positively charged

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depolarisation

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interior of cell negatively charged

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hyperpolarisation

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the connection where one neuron modulates the activity of a target is called a

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synapse

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contraction is triggered by AP in the

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sarcolemma

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Can disrupt the NMJ

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tetrodotoxin
joro spider toxin
botulinum toxin
curare
anticholinesterases

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Anatomical arrangement of synapse

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axo-dendritic
axo-somatic
axo-axonal

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RMP is -70mV

threshold potential is usually

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-55mV

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depolarisation usually reaches

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+40 mV

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Large axons increase

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conduction velocity

you can spread Na+ channels out further - the depolarisation from one will still be big enough to get to its neighbour to reach its threshold and make its neighbour open

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Myelin

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folds of membrane from Schwan cell or oligodendrocyte

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de-myelination diseases

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multiple sclerosis

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de-myelination allows for the big local current to

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decay quicker

conduction fails

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Examples of graded potentials

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Generator potentials
postsynaptic potentials
endplate potentials
pacemaker potentials

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graded potentials are decremental therefore they are

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only useful over short distances

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Action potential properties

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encoded by frequency
cannot summate
threshold
self-propagating
depolarising
voltage-gated

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Graded potentials

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encoded by amplitude
summate
no threshold
decremental 
ligand-gated

‘decides’ is a cell will fire an action potential

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Inhibitory post synaptic potentials (IPSP)

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hyperpolarising

can open Cl- to flow out or allow more K+ in

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Excitatory post synaptic potentials (EPSP)

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depolarising

more Na gets in than K gets out

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post synaptic potentials are produced by a neurotransmitter opening of closing ion channels. therefore they are

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ligand-gated

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action potential are produced by depolarisation of the membrane potential opening ion channels. therefore they are

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voltage-gated ion channels