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Lecture 15: Nervous tissue Flashcards

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Telodendrites

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Contain synaptic vessicles

Form presynaptic membrane

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Multipolar neuron

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Most common

One axon, multiple dendrites

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Bipolar neuron

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Have two processes, one at each end

Associated with special senses - olfactory/visual

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Pseudounipolar

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Have single process from body that bifurcates

Found in dorsal root ganglia

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Golgi I neuron

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Long axons which leave the gray matter

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Golgi II

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Short axons which ramify through gray matter

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Epineurium

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Covers entire nerve
Supplied by blood and lymphatics
Type I collagen and fibroblasts

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Perineurium

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Dense CT
Covers fascicles
Epithelial-like fibroblasts with tight junctions
Blood nerve barrier

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Endoneurium

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Thin layer of reticular CT
Surrounds individual fibers/schwann cells
Type III collagen

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Presynaptic membrane contains

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Dense bodies

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SCa transport used by

SCb transport used by

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Preassembled microtubules, neurofilaments

Enzymes, actin, clathrin

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Intermediate transport used by

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Mitochondria, other membrane bound organelles

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Fast transport used by

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Synaptic vessicles

Neurotransmitters

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14
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Glial cells derived from

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Embryonic neural crest tissue

-except microglia

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Astrocytes location/structure

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Only in CNS

Numerous processes w/ expanded feet (pedicles) that terminate on capillaries or pia mater

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Fibrous astrocytes

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White matter

Long processes w/few branches

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Protoplasmic astrocytes

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Gray matter

Short processes w/many short branches

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Astrocyte function

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Regulate composition of intracellular environment
BBB- end feet form glia limitans
Development of cerebral cortex

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Oligodendrocytes location/function

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CNS only
Closely associated with neuron cell bodies, function as satellite cells
Surrounds axons in gray matter
Myelinate axons in CNS-each one myelinates several

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Schwann cells

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Myelinate single portion of axon in PNS

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Microglial cells derived from/function

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Derived from macrophage precursors
Phagocytic in CNS
Recruit leukocytes across BBB
Module immune response w/astrocytes

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Ependymal cells

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Ciliated cuboidal
Function in transport
May secrete cerebrospinal fluid in choroid plexus

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Satellite cells

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Form moons around cell bodies in ganglia

Insulators

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Internal and external mesaxon

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Outer and innermost points of fusion between the outer leaflets

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Intraperiod line

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Electron dense line created by extracellular space between outer leaflets

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Major protein zero

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PNS-intraperiod lines- binds OUTER leaflets
Mutations are related to Charcot-Marie-Tooth diseases
In CNS this protein is replaced by proteolipid protein-mutations in it cause Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease

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Major dense line

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Line created by cytoplasmic space between inner leaflets

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Myelin basic protein

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PNS-inner leaflets

Stabilized lipids

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Schmidt-Lanterman clefts

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Residual areas of cytoplasm within major dense lines

30
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Astrocyte endfoot contacts the _______ in the _____

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Node of ranvier in the CNS

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PNS- node of ranvier covered by

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Schwann cell processes

32
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Connexin 32 expressed in ____ mutation causes ____

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Schwann cells

Mutation causes Charlot-Marie-Tooth-disease

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SNAPs

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Bind vesicles to presynaptic membrane

34
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Synapsins

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Filaments in presynaptic membrane

35
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Meninges and spaces listed superficial-deep

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Epidural space
Dura mater
Subdural space
Leptomeninx

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Dura mater “tough mother”

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Thick sheet of dense fibrous CT
Found in cranial cavity and spinal cord
Receive blood from CSF

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Subarachnoid space

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Between arachnoid and pia mater- filled by CSF

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Arachnoid villi

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Allow CSF to flow from subarachnoid space into dural sinuses

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Pia mater is continuous with

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Perivascular CT of cerebral/spinal cord blood vessels

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Pia mater tightly attached to

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Nervous tissue of brain

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Perivascular space is covered by

42
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Choroid plexus cell type/cell linked by

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Simple cuboidal cells

Tight junctions

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Choroid plexus capillaries formed by

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Endothelial cells lacking tight junctions

44
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Choroid plexus and CSF

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Na, K, ATPase pumps in apical membrane of choroid plexus pump fluid into lumen leading to CSF in ventricles

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Ependyma lines

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Ventricular walls-simple cuboidal

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Ependymal cells linked by and in contact with

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Zonula adherens

Contact astrocytic feet

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Dorsal root ganglia neurons are

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Pseudopolar

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Dorsal root postganglionic axons are

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Myelinated

49
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Satellite cells in dorsal root ganglia

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Form layer around cell body of neuron

50
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Autonomic neuron type-recieve info from

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Multipolar-recieve input from myelinated preganglionic neurons

51
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Autonomic postganglionic axons are

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Not myelinated

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