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1
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The peripheral nervous system is divided into ________?

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Sensory and Motor divisions

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The autonomic nervous system is divided into ________?

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Sympathetic & Parasympathetic divisions

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Which of the following statements correctly describes the afferent division of the Peripheral nervous system?

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Transports action potentials to the CNS

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Which of the following statements correctly describes the efferent division of the PNS?

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Transmits impulses from the CNS to the skeletal muscle

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Does Autonomic motor nerves innervate skeletal muscle

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FALSE

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Which division of the nervous system controls smooth and cardiac muscle?

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Autonomic nervous system.

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7
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What does the CNS consist of?

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Bain and spine

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What connects off of afferent neurons?

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Sensory input

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The two efferent neurons?

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Autonomic Neurons & Somatic Motor Neurons

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10
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What does the somatic motor neurons do?

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Controls skeletal muscles. It is anything we can control // control movement

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11
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What does automatic neurons do?

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Everything that works on its own.

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12
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Examples of autonomic neurons?

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Cardiac + smooth muscles (organs)

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13
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What is sympathetic?

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Fight or flight (dilated pupils)

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What is parasympathetic?

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Rest or digest (lowering heart rate)

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15
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What branches of off sympathetic & parasympathetic?

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Enteric Nervous System

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16
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Where is the Enteric Nervous System found? What does it do?

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In your gut // moves you intestines // gastrointestinal tract

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17
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What is a neuron classified by?

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Shape and function

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18
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What neuron is most abundant in your body due to function?

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Interneurons

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19
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What is the main function of the neuron?

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Send signals

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20
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What is the cell body called?

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Soma

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21
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Anterograde Transort?

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Soma —> Axon

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Retrograde Transport?

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Axon —-> Soma

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Unipolar nerve cell?

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One neck coming out of soma

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24
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Multipolar nerve cell?

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Multiple necks coming out of soma

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25
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Bipolar nerve cell?

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2 necks coming out of soma

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26
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What are the glial cells?

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Supporting units

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27
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What are the 2 major parts the nervous system is divided into?

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CNS & Peripheral Nervous System

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What does the PNS consist of?

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Neurons associated with sensory input (afferent) and motor output (efferent)

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Short, branched processes that extend from the cell body?

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Dendrites

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30
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What do dendrites do?

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Function to receive information

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A large process that extends from the cell body at a point of origin called the axon hillock and functions to send information?

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Axon

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A large process that extends from the cell body at a point of origin called the axon hillock and functions to send information?

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Axon

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33
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Multipolar is the what division?

A

Efferent

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34
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Unipolar is the what division?

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Sensory // afferent

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35
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99% of our neurons are _____?

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Multipolar

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36
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Multipolar are found everywhere except for what division?

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Sensory // afferent

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37
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Interneurons are located between _____ & ____

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Sensory & motor neurons

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38
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3 types of neurons?

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sensory, motor, and interneurons

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39
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What are the two synapses?

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Chemical & Electrical

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40
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Controlled, more common, easier to control, precise in messages, use neurotransmitter/ chemical signals?

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Chemical Synapse

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Immediate, faster (group text), rare, mostly in heart and can be in brain?

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Electrical

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42
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What uses gap junctions?

A

Electrical Synapses

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43
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What are gap junctions

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The action potential goes directly from one neuron to the next

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44
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EPSP ad IPSP are _____?

A

Graded Potentials

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45
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What is depolarization?

A

EPSP (because it is excitatory)

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46
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Where does summation occur?

A

Axon hillock

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47
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Temporal summation

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Rapidly repeated stimulus (has to do with time)

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48
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Spatial Summation

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Spaced (multiple areas from action potentials to occur)

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49
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Is spatial or temporal summation faster?

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Spatial

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50
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Ions fired close to the trigger zone with most likely cause a ____?

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Action Potential

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51
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What is hyperpolarization?

A

ISPS (inhibitory)

52
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Like a sponge, regulate ECF (mostly K+), take extra neurotransmitters, blood brain barrier

A

Astrocytes

53
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Astrocytes are found mostly in the _____?

A

CNS

54
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What are the glial cells found in the CNS?

A

Astrocytes, Oligodendrocytes, Ependymal, Microglials

55
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Are glial cells found more than neurons?

A

TRUE

56
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What are the glial cells in the PNS?

A

Schwann & Satellite

57
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Oligodendrocytes mylenate many ____?

And they speed up ____ 1000 X?

A

Axons “O so many”

Action Potential

58
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Cerebral Spinal fluid?

A

Ependymal

59
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What has a single axon?

A

Schwann cells

60
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Store glycogen?

A

Astrocytes

61
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What cell responds to injury? Are they phagocytic cell eating? Associated with _____?

A

Microglial’s // TRUE // Alzheimers disease

62
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Insulates and speeds up action potential?

A

Myelin Sheath

63
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Myelin sheath is on ____?

A

Schwann cells

64
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7 functions of muscle tissue?

A

movement, maintenance of posture, respiration, heat generation, communication, constriction of organs and good vessels, pumping blood

65
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4 properties of muscle tissue?

A

Contractility, excitability, extensibility, elasticity

66
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Skeletal, striated, voluntary

A

Skeletal muscle

67
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Which structures in the skeletal muscle do change in length?

A

HI ( h & i band)

68
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Cardiac, striated, involuntary

A

Cardiac Muscle

69
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What two muscles are autorhythmic? (capable of contracting spontaneously without nervous or hormonal stimulation)

A

Smooth and cardiac

70
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Visceral, nonstriated, involuntary

A

Smooth Muscle

71
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What is the Triad?

A

2 terminal cisternaes & a T-tubule

72
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Once Ca++ binds with troponin, the ____ exposes the myosin binding sites?

A

tropomyosin

73
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Myofilaments are made up of?

A

Actin and myosin

74
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Myofibrils are a ____?

A

Sarcomere

75
Q

Constant contraction?

A

Tetanus

76
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3 skeletal muscle fiber types?

A

Slow twitch oxidative muscle fibers, fast-twitch oxidative-glycolytic muscle fibers, fast-twitch glycolytic fibers

77
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Muscle fibers are the same thing as?

A

Muscle cells

78
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Grouping of muscle fibers?

A

Fasciculus

79
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What makes up a muscle fiber?

A

Myofibril, sarcolemma, SR, sarcoplasm

80
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The SR stores?

A

Calcium

81
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What is hypertrophy?

A

Individual muscle fibers grow

82
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Many G-actins equal _____?

A

F-actin

83
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What determines if the monomer attaches to active site?

A

Troponin

84
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Ca++ binds to _____?

A

Troponin

85
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What are the 3 binding sites for troponin?

A

Ca++, G-actin, tropomyosin

86
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What covers the active sites?

A

Tropomyosin

87
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What regulates if myosin connects with actin?

A

Tropomyosin

88
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What does the myosin head connect with?

A

Actin sites

89
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Myofilament + myosin =

A

Sarcomeres

90
Q

Contracted muscles become ____?

A

Shorter

91
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What 3 things do myosin head do/have?

A

Forms cross bridges, hinge region can bend and straighten, ATPase

92
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What consist of the neuromuscular junction?

A

Pre synaptic (nerve) , synaptic cleft (gap) , post synaptic (muscle)

93
Q

What is the membrane of the muscle?

A

Sarcolemma

94
Q

Neurotransmitter in the neuromuscular junction?

A

ACH – acetylcholine

95
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What is required to open the sodium ligand gated channel?

A

ACH – acetylcholine

96
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What does the acetylcholinase do?

A

Breaks up acetylcholine into acetate & choline

97
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What is needed for relaxation and to break up the cross bridge formation?

A

ATP

98
Q

4 fatigue types?

A

Central fatigue, low frequency fatigue, high frequency fatigue, synapse fatigue

99
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What is central fatigue?

A

Psychological

100
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What is low frequency fatigue?

A

Long use of a muscle, hard time to revere (marathon runners)

101
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What is high frequency fatigue?

A

Intense use of muscle, fast time to recover (power lifting)

102
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What is synapse fatigue?

A

When you run out of nutrients to contract

103
Q

One motor neuron can control few to many _____?

A

Muscle fibers

104
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More ______ means easier movement

A

Motor neurons

105
Q

What allows the Ca++ to rush out into the sarcoplasm?

A

Action potential hitting RYR which opens the DHPR

106
Q

ATP hydrolyzes into ____ & ____

A

ADP & Pi

107
Q

If shot by a gun, what tissues and muscles would it go through to reach the heart?

A 
Epi
Fasciculi (the muscle)
Peri
Fasiculus 
Endo
Muscle fibers (the cell)
Myofibrils 
Myofilaments (actin + myosin)
108
Q

What causes MD (muscular dystrophy) ? What is is?

A

Dystrophin // Muscle weakness

109
Q

What is Dystrophin?

A

Connects protein, connects cytoskeleton muscle fibers together

110
Q

Nicotinic type II (receptors) is found ____ to ___?

A

neuron to neuron

111
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Nicotinic type I (receptors) is found ____ to ___?

A

Neuron to muscle

112
Q

3 muscle contractions?

A

Concentric, esentric, isometric

113
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What is Concentric contraction?

A

The muscle length shortens and the tension stays the same

114
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What is mesenteric contraction?

A

Muscle lengthens but tensions stays the same

115
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What is isometric contraction?

A

Muscle length stays the same, but tension increases

116
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Aerobic, O2, fatigue rate is high of resistance, dark red or pink, endurance

A

Slow-Twitch fibers

117
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Anaerobic, respiration w/o oxygen, white, no myoglobin

A

Fast-twitch fibers

118
Q

All use of motor units?

A

Tetriny

119
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What is wave summation?

A

When motor units build upon one another (slow —> medium —-> large)

120
Q

What is related to Oligondrocytes but in the PNS?

A

Schwann cells

121
Q

You get MS without?

A

Oligondrocytes

122
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EPSP increase ___ permeability

A

Na+

123
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What protects from heavy metal?

A

Astrocytes

124
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What is the length of the myosin?

A

A-band

125
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Sarcolemma that goes deep?

A

T-tubule

126
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What is found in muscle fibers?

A

Sarcomeres

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