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Neurons

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Primary processors of neural signals

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What do Neuroglia support?

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Support the electrical and chemical functions of neurons

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Vascular endothelium

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Provides for the supply of blood to brain tissue

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Fundamental unit of function in the CNS

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Neurons

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3 zones of functional microanatomy of neurons

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Input zone: Dendrites, Cell Body
Conducting Zone: Axon
Output Zone: Synapses, Axon Terminal

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Dendrite

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A neuronal process arising from the nerve cell body that receives synaptic input.

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Morphology of the dendrite gives some insight into…

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The functional properties of those cells and the class of neuron

Example: the absence of dendritic spines (smoothness) is evidence of an inhibitory effect on the cells that they make synaptic connections to.

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Axon

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The neuronal process that carries the action potential from the nerve cell body to a target.

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electrical synapses

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Synapses that transmit information via the direct flow of electrical current at gap junctions.

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chemical synapses

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Synapses that transmit information via the secretion of chemical signals (neurotransmitters).

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gray matter refers to

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any accumulation of cell bodies and neuropil in the brain and spinal cord (e.g., nuclei or cortices)

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What is white matter

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refers to areas of the central nervous system (CNS) that are mainly made up of myelinated axons

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Give 4 examples of different classes of neurons

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Cortical pyramidal cell
Retinal bipolar cell
Cerebellar Purkinje cells
Retinal Ganglion cells

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Afferent

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A neuron or axon that conducts action potentials from the periphery toward the central nervous system (coming in to CNS)

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Efferent

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A neuron or axon that conducts information away from the central nervous system toward the periphery

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Interneuron

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AKA: local circuit neuron.

Technically, a neuron in the pathway between primary sensory and primary effector neurons;

more generally, a neuron whose relatively short axons branch locally to innervate other neurons.

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Brainstem is comprised of

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Midbrain
Pons
Medulla

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diencephalon
(location)
(Comprises)

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Portion of the brain that lies just rostral to the midbrain; comprises the thalamus and hypothalamus

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Rostral

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Anterior, or “headward.”

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anterior

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Toward the front;

sometimes used as a synonym for rostral, and sometimes as a synonym for ventral.

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caudal

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Posterior, or “tailward.”

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Posterior

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Toward the back;

sometimes used as a synonym for caudal or dorsal.

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Neuroglia provides these functions for the brain:

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  • Support the metabolic and signaling functions of neurons
  • Participates in neuron circuit formation and synaptic plasticity
  • Make myelin (axonal insulation)
  • Contribute to formation of blood-brain barrier
  • Participate in inflammatory response in injured neural tissue
  • Contribute to the formation of scar tissue in damaged brain and spinal cord
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Types of glial cells

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Astrocyte
Oligodendrocyte
Microglial Cells

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Astrocyte
(Found in)
(Assists with)
(Contributes to)

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Found
+in gray matter

Assists with
+ionic balance of extracellular fluids,
+Take-up and process neurotransmitters from synaptic clefts
+formation of new synapses and circuits

Contributes to
+formation of blood-brain barrier and brain-ependymal barrier
+scar formation in necrotic neural tissue following injury

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Oligodendrocyte
(Found in)
(Present)
(Subject to)

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  • Found in white matter and form myelin
  • Present antigens that influence the outgrowth of axons in developing and recovering brain
  • Subject to immunological attack in diseases of the CNS (e.g., multiple sclerosis)
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Myelin

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  • Insulate axons by with layers of membrane that wrap around axon segments
  • Decreases “leakiness” of the membrane, making the current more efficient
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Nodes of Ranvier

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Gaps between myelin segments that allow for the economical concentration of ion channels and ion pumps that are necessary for electrical signaling in axons.

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Microglial cells

what are they and what are they derived from?

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  • Special type of mononuclear phagocyte that resides in the CNS
  • Derived from hematopoietic precursor cells that migrate into the brain during development
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Phagocyte

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A type of cell within the body capable of engulfing and absorbing bacteria and other small cells and particles

31
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Haematopoiesis

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The formation of blood cellular components

Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are the stem cells that give rise to other blood cells.

32
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Microglial cells exist in two forms

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Amoeboid (activated state) and ramified (dormant state)

33
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Activated microglia secrete…

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Cytokines (signaling molecules) that modulate local inflammatory responses

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Glial stem cells

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Subset of astrocytes located near the ventricles

May give rise to more stem cells, mature astrocytes or oligodendrocytes, or mature neurons

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Blood-brain barrier

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Specialized permeability barrier between capillary endothelium and extracellular space in neural tissue

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Blood-brain barrier is formed by

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Tight junctions between capillary endothelial cells and surrounded by astrocytic foot processes

37
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Blood-brain barrier excludes

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Large water soluble molecules from freely diffusing into the central nervous system as well as certain pathological microbes and toxic compounds that might otherwise enter the brain

38
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Superior (dorsal)

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Top part

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Inferior (Ventral)

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Lower part

40
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cephalic flexure with regard to direction

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Brainstem runs off at a 120 degree angle relative to the plain of the forebrain. Below this point of flexure positional terms are applied a different way

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Neuron classification by shape

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Unipolar-have one process that includes both the axon and dendrite.

Bipolar-have two processes, the axon and a dendrite.

Multipolar cells-more than two processes, the axon and two or more dendrites.

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Unipolar cells in humans

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True unipolar cells are only found in invertebrate animals, so the unipolar cells in humans are more appropriately called “pseudo-unipolar” cells. Invertebrate unipolar cells do not have dendrites. Human unipolar cells have an axon that emerges from the cell body, but it splits so that the axon can extend along a very long distance.

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Bipolar cells are found in…

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in the olfactory epithelium (where smell stimuli are sensed), and as part of the retina.

Bipolar cells are not very common.

44
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In the peripheral nervous system, the cells that elaborate myelin are called

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Schwann cells

45
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Neuropil

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the region between nerve cell bodies where most synaptic connectivity occurs.

46
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neural circuits

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Organization of neurons working together to provide the foundation of sensation, perception and behavior.

47
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A simple example of a neural circuit is the ensemble of cells that subserves the

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myotatic spinal reflex (the “knee-jerk” reflex

48
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two basic approaches to measuring the electrical activity of a nerve cell

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extracellular recording (also referred to as single-unit recording),

intracellular recording

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Extracellular recordings primarily detect

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action potentials

50
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action potential

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The electrical signal conducted along axons (or muscle fibers) by which information is conveyed from one place to another in the nervous system.

51
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Intracellular recordings can detect

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smaller, graded potential changes that trigger action potentials,

These graded triggering potentials can arise at either sensory receptors or synapses and are called receptor potentials or synaptic potentials, respectively

52
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The central nervous system comprises the

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Brain and spinal cord

53
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The peripheral nervous system (PNS) includes the

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sensory neurons that link sensory receptors on the body surface or deeper within it with relevant processing circuits in the central nervous system

54
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Systems of he peripheral nervous system

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Autonomic (Visceral) Nervous System

Somatic Nervous system

55
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Peripheral axons are gathered into bundles called_____;

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nerves

56
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Those nerve cell bodies that reside in the peripheral nervous system are located in _____

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Ganglia

57
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In the central nervous system, nerve cells are arranged in two different ways.

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Nuclei: local accumulations of neurons having roughly similar connections and functions

Cortex (cortices): sheet-like arrays of nerve cells

58
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autonomic nervous system
(consists of)
(concerned with)

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Consists of sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions.

concerned with the regulation of smooth muscle, cardiac muscle, and glands

59
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parasympathetic nervous system ganglia are found…

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within the organs they innervate.

60
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Sympathetic nervous system ganglia lie along or in front of the ________ and send their axons to _______

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vertebral column;

a variety of peripheral targets

61
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enteric system

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made up of small ganglia as well as individual neurons scattered throughout the wall of the gut.

62
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7 parts of the CNS

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  1. spinal cord,
  2. medulla,
  3. pons,
  4. cerebellum,
  5. midbrain,
  6. diencephalon,
  7. cerebral hemispheres
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Ventricles

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fluid-filled spaces

64
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What structures surround the 4th ventricle?

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Medulla and pons

65
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encloses the 3rd and lateral ventricles

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diencephalon and cerebral hemispheres

66
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What are the three types of brainstem motor nuclei and what do they project to?

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somatic motor nuclei: project to striated muscles

branchial motor nuclei: project to muscles derived from embryonic structures

visceral motor nuclei: project to peripheral ganglia that innervate smooth muscle or glandular targets

67
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Explain how the myotatic reflex functions

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knee-jerk response

Hammer tap stretches tendonstretches sensory receptors in leg extensor muscleSensory neuron excites motor neuron in the spinal cord and spinal interneuron which inhibits motor neuron to flexor muscles Motor neuron conducts action potential to synapses on extensor muscle fibers, causing contraction (Flexor muscle relaxes because it was inhibited)Leg Extends

68
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Axons in the central nervous system are gathered into

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Tracts

69
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Tracts that cross the midline of the brain are referred to as

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Commissures

70
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Neurons of the enteric system influence _____ and _____

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gastric motility; secretion.

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