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Module 3- topic 3-4: Peripheral Nervous System and Hormones Flashcards

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Sensory receptors

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Monitor changes in and out of human body

Transmits information back to CNS

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Mechanoreceptors

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Detect mechanical stimuli

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Thermoreceptors

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Detect temperature changes

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Photoreceptors

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Respond to light

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Chemoreceptors

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Respond to chemicals

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Nocireceptors

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Detect harmful stimuli and elicit pain response

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Receptor potential

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Produced by stimuli and I turn causes action potential to travel along afferent fibres

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Peripheral nerve fibres

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Bundled together to produce peripheral nerve

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Endoneurium

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Immediately surrounds each nerve fibre

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Perineurium

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Collects nerve fibres in small bundles called fascicles

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Fascicles

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Bundles of nerve fibres wrapped in perineurium

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epineurium

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Collects fascicles with blood vessels to produce peripheral nerve

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Spinal reflex

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Somatic nerves involved in involuntary automated response

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Autonomic nervous system

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Maintains homeostasis because sympathetic and parasympathetic send opposing efferent signals to target organs

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Impulse pathway of autonomic nervous system

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A chain of 2 neutrons plus a junction site

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Gangalion

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Junction site

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Pre ganglionic nerve body

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Within CNS

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Post ganglionic nerve body

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Within a ganglion within pns

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Sympathetic ganglia

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Close to spinal cord

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Parasympathetic ganglia

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Within effector organs

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Efferent signals in ANS motor neurons

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Travel far slower than somatic motor neurons

Effect lasts much longer

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Parasympathetic pathway

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Releases acetylcholine at both ganglionic and effector synapse

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Sympathetic pathway

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Releases acetylcholine at ganglionic synapse but releases norepinephrine at effector synapse

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Endocrine system

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Control and integration of organ systems

Produces and secretes hormones

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Hormones

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Bond to target tissue and change their metabolism

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Endocrine glands

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Do not have secretory ducts, release products directly into blood stream

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Effects of endocrine system

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Much slower than nervous system but are maintained for longer periods of time

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Pituitary gland - location

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Located at base of brain

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Pituitary gland - makeup

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Posterior pituary

Anterior pituitary

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Posterior pituitary

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Extension of hypothalamus

Stores hormones produced by hypothalamus

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Anterior pituitary

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Derived from epithelial cells

Hormone secreting glandular tissue

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How hypothalamus regulates release of hormones

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Interconnecting network of blood vessels

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Posterior pituitary- hormones

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Oxytocin

Antidiuretic hormone

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Oxytocin

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Stimulates uterine contraction and milk ejection

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Antidiuretic hormone (ADH)

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Stimulates kidneys to reabsorb water from urine and return to bloodstream

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Anterior pituitary- hormones

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Human growth hormone 
Thyroid stimulating hormone
Adrenocorticotropic hormone 
Prolactin
Follicle stimulating hormone 
Luteinizing hormone
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Human growth hormone (hGH)

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Promotes growth

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Increased levels of hGH

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Decreased levels of hGH

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Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH)

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Stimulates hormone production by thyroid gland

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Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)

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Stimulates hormone production from adrenal glands

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Prolactin

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Promotes milk production

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Follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) and Luteinizing hormone (LH)

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Regulate male and female reproductive systems

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Thyroid gland - location

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Front of neck near Adam’s apple

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Thyroid gland - makeup

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Composed of numerous follicles lines by single layer of epithelial cells

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Thyroid hormones

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Thyroid hormone

Calcitonin

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Thyroid hormone

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Effects metabolism

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Calcitonin

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Produced by parafollicular cells
Lowers calcium levels
Promotes bone formation by inhibiting osteoclasts

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Parathyroid glands - location

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4 pea shaped glands at rear of thyroid gland

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Parathyroid hormone

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Maintains calcium homeostasis

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Ways that PTH increases calcium

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Activates reabsorption of bone matrix
Increases calcium absorption of small intestine
Increases calcium reabsorption of kidney

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Too much pth

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Cause oestoclasts to break down large areas of bone to make cysts

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Too little pth

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Decreases levels of calcium in blood

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Adrenal gland - location

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Small Pyramid shaped organs at top each kidney

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Hormones in adrenal glands

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Aldosterone
Cortisol
Sex hormones

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Aldosterone

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Increases blood pressure by increasing Na+ reabsorption

Formed in zona glomerulosa

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Cortisol

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Increases metabolism

Decreases inflammatory and immune response

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Sex hormones

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Onset of puberty

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Adrenal medulla

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Contains chromatin cells

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chromatin cells

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Secrete catecholamines

  • epinephrine
  • norepinephrine
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Catecholamine function

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Increase:
heart rate 
Blood pressure 
Metabolism 
Oxygen uptake
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proprioceptors

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detect muscle contraction and joint movement

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auditory receptors

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otoliths

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stones in ear
detects and maintains balance
movement tells brain where head it

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olfactory receptors

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in the nose

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Gustatory receptors

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taste buds

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