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Lecture 11: Sensory Physiology Flashcards

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Sensory Aα What is its classification of afferent fibers? Is the fiber diameter large of small? What is its conduction velocity? What receptors does it supply?

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Ia and Ib large 80-120 m/s (fast) Primary muscle spindles and Golgi tendon organs

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Sensory Aβ What is its classification of afferent fibers? What receptors does it supply?

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II Secondary muscle spindles, skin mechanoreceptors

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Sensory Aδ What is its classification of afferent fibers? What receptors does it supply?

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III Skin mechanoreceptors, thermal receptors, and nociceptors

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Sensory C What is its classification of afferent fibers? Is the fiber diameter large of small? What is its conduction velocity? What receptors does it supply?

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IV small 0.5-2 m/s (slow) Skin mechanoreceptors, thermal receptors, and nociceptors

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Motor Aα What receptors does it supply?

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Extrafusal skeletal muscle fibers

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Motor A(gamma) What receptors does it supply?

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Intrafusal skeletal muscle fibers

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Motor B What receptors does it supply?

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Preganglionic autonomic fibers

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Motor C What receptors does it supply?

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Postganglionic autonomic fibers

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What are rapidly adapting receptors

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Receptors that respond only at the beginning or end of a stimulus (only active when stimulus intensity increases or decreases)

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What are Slowly adapting receptors

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Receptors that respond to prolonged and constant stimulation

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What does Meissner corpuscle sense?

Is it RA or SA?

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Touch and vibration; flutter and tapping <100 Hz

RA

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Where is Meissner corpuscle located?

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Glaborous skin

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What does Pacinian corpuscle sense?

RA or SA

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High frequency vibration

Very RA

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Where is Pacinian corpuscle located?

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Both hairy and glaborous skin

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What does Ruffini corpuscle sense?

RA or SA

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Magnitude and direction of stretch Touch, pressure, and proprioception

SA

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Where is Ruffini corpuscle located?

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Both hairy and glaborous skin

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What does a Merkel cell sense?

RA or SA

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Pressure

SA

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Where is a Merkel cell corpuscle located?

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Glaborous skin

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What does a hair follicle receptor sense?

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Motion across skin and directionality of that motion

RA & SA

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What does a tactile free-nerve ending sense?

RA or SA

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Pain and temperature

SA

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What is tactile acuity

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Ability to sense small or large differences in stimuli

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What is a receptive field

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The range of which a receptor is active

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What is two point discrimination?

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Ability to distinguish between two stimuli applied at a close distance. It is determined by measuring the minimum distance between the two stimuli

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Where is tactile acuity the highest? Are receptive fields small or large?

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Fingertips and lips

Small

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Where is tactile acuity the lowest? Are receptive fields small or large?
Calf, back, thigh Large
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Where is Somatosensory area 1 located?
Post central gyus
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What is the function of Somatosensory area 1?
Integration of information for position sense, size, and shape discrimination
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Where is Somatosensory area 2 located?
Wall of Sylvian Fissure (under lip of S1) Receives input from S1
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What is the function of Somatosensory area 2?
Responsible for comparisons between objects, different tactile sensation, and deciding what becomes a memory
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What is the function of parieto-temporal-occipital association area?
High level interpretation of sensory inputs. Receives input from multiple sensory areas.
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What is the law of projection?
No matter where along the afferent pathway a stimulation is applied, the perceived sensation arises from the origin of the sensation.
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What phenomenon can the law of projection explain?
Phantom limb
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What is pain?
An **unpleasant sensory and emotional experience** associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage.
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What is nociception?
The neural process of encoding noxious stimuli
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What is hypersensitivity?
Increased responsiveness of nociceptive neurons to their normal input, and/or recruitment of a response to normally subthreshold inputs (excessive sensitivity to something that shouldn't be that sensitive)
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What is hyperaesthesia?
Increased sensitivity to stimulation, excluding the special senses (increased sensitivity to a stimulation)
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What is hyperalgesia?
Increased pain from a stimulus that normally provokes pain (more pain than there should be)
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What is allodynia?
Pain due to a stimulus that does not normally provoke pain. Classic example is the lay of sheets on skin that has been sunburned. (Pain when there shouldn't be pain)
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What are C-fibers
Very thin slowly conducting unmyelinated neurons Large receptive field produce a throbbing dull pain sensation Imprecise location of pain
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What are A delta fibers
Fast conducting myelinated small receptive field precise localization of pain Sharp pain
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What are mechanical nociceptors?
Response to mechanical forces ranging from moderate pressure with a blunt object to overtly tissue-damaging stimuli
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What are chemical nociceptors?
Response to endogenous or exogenous chemical compounds, such as pro-inflammatory mediators, acids, or capsaicin
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What are thermal nociceptors?
Response to noxious heat and cold will directly activate thermal receptors expressed by nociceptors
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What is the function of the transient receptor potential (TRP) family of receptor ion channels?
Sense a broad range of changing environments in the body tissue: pH, inflammatory mediators, heat, cold, and exogenous chemicals. When active are permeable to Ca2+, Na+ & K+
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What activates TRPV1
Capsaicin (hot pepper) bradykinin intense heat
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What pain conditions is TRPV1 involved with?
Migraine dental pain cancer pain inflammatory pain visceral pain osteoarthritis
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What activates TRPA1
Allyl isothiocyanate in mustard oil, wasabi and horseradish non chilly pepper heat
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What pain conditions is TRPA1 involved with?
Dermatitis Chronic itch Painful bladder syndrome Migraine Irritable bowel syndrome Panreatitis
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What activates TRMP8
Cold temperatures and agents (menthols)
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What happens where there are no pain inputs to the C fibers?
Inhibitory interneurons suppress pain pathway
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What happens when there are pain inputs to the C fiber?
C fibers stop the inhibitory interneurons and send a strong signal to brain
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How can pain be modulated as proposed by the gate control theory?
1. Aβ fiber is activated and travels to dorsal horn and synapses on an inhibitory neuron, releasing an EAA. 2. Released glycine inhibits secondary sensory neuron on nociceptive pathway. 3. Rubbing an area of affected skin actiaves the Aβ fiber and reduces the sensation of pain
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How are pain signals reduced via descending inhibition?
1. Activation of Periaqueductal grey matter by opiates, EAA & cannabinoids leads to fibers going to Locus Coeruleus (NE) and Raphe nucleus (serotonin) 2. NE and serotonin released into dorsal horn and activate inhibitory interneurons 3. Local inhibitory interneurons release opiates and activate mu receptors on pre-synaptic terminals of C-fibers, reducing nociception
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What does the theory of central sensitization say?
1. Level of spinal cord, higher brain areas, or both 2. Reduces threshold of involved neurons to noxious stimuli 3. Synaptic Plasticity: Persistent stimulation of NMDA receptors and intracellular signaling cascades 4. Central Inflammation
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What does the theory of peripheral sensitization say?
1. Inflammation can make nociceptors in injured tissues more sensitive (e.g. Prostaglandins and bradykinin) 2. Body more sensitive to thermal changes, activating TRPV1
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What role does the primary sensory cortex play when it comes to the sensory system?
Identifies size and shape of an object
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What role does the secondary sensory cortex play when it comes to the sensory system?
Cognitive interpretation of crude senses & compares objects by touch alone.
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What role do the primary and secondary sensory cortices play when it comes to pain?
Receive input from nociceptors and play a role in localization of pain
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What role does the insular cortex play when it comes to pain?
Interpretation of pain Integrates all signals related to pain
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What role does the amygdala play when it comes to pain?
Emotional component of pain
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What role does the hypothalamus/medulla play when it comes to pain?
Integrate physiologicak change associated with visceral pain
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Free nerve endings
Peripheral terminals of nociceptor axons that lack specialzed receptor cells or encapsulations. Can either be peptidergic or non-peptidergic.
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Peptidergic Nociceptors
Express neuropeptides: Substance P and CGRP Sense chronic inflammation & visceral pain
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What up-regulates neuropeptides?
Chronic inflammation
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Non-peptidergic Nociceptors
Does not express CGRP or Substance P Involved in somatic chronic pain states such as diabetic neuropathy

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