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What is a nerve impulse

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Self propagating wave of electrical disturbance travelling along surface of axon membrane

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What is resting potential

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Potential difference across he axon when a neuron is at rest

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What are the charges of inside and outside of an axon

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Inside is negatively charged relative to outside

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What is an axon

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The long fibre in a neurone tat conducts impulses away from the cell body

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What is the purpose of the myelin sheath

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Made of schwaan cells that insulates the axon, shields the axon from surrounding tissue fluid and insulates it from other neurones

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What is depolarisation

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A rapid temporary reversal of the resting membrane potential

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What is re polarisation

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A return to the resting membrane potential

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How is resting potential maintained?

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Membrane more permeable to potassium ions and less to sodium ions
Sodium ions are actively transported out and potassium ions pumped in

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How does MS lead to slower responses to stimuli?

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Myelin sheath broken down
Impulse is unable to jump from node to node
More depolarisation over length of membrane

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How does a lower temperature lead to slower nerve impulse conduction?

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Ions have less kenetic energy and therefore they diffuse more slowly

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What factors affect speed of nerve impulse conduction

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Myelination
Diameter of axon
Temperature

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What is the absolute refractory period?

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After generation of an action potential
Voltage gated sodium channels are inactivated
They cannot respond to further stimulus

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What is a synapse?

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Junction between neurones

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Where are neurotransmitters made and where are they stored?

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Made in pre synaptic neurones

Stored in synaptic vesicles

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What is summation?

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Arrival of multiple action potentials leading to a build up of neurotransmitter

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Why does depolarisation happen?

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Sodium ion gates open

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Why can another action potential not be generated once one has just been generated?

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Membrane more impermeable to sodium ions
Sodium ion cannot enter axon
Membrane becomes more negative than resting potential

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Explain why a neurotransmitter (e.g. acetylcholine) can only bind with one type of receptor protein in the postsynaptic membrane.

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Unique shape of receptor protein / binding site
Due to (tertiary) structure of protein molecule
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What is the role of calcium ions (Ca2+) in synaptic transmission?

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Cause vesicles to move to presynaptic membrane

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How is an action potential generated?

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Sodium ion channels open;

Allowing rapid influx of sodium ions

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How does an increase in exercise cause an increase in heart rate?

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Chemoreceptors detect rise in PH sends impulse to medulla. More impulses to SAN by sympathetic nervous system.

22
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DDT binds to sodium channels, and consequently channels remain open, how does this kill?

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Neurones remain depolarised

No action potentials generated

23
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What does the SAN do?

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Sends waves of excitation through the atria initiating the heart beat

24
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What delays the contraction of the ventricles?

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Non- conductive tissue prevents electrical impulse from reaching ventricles
Electrical impulse forced via AVN

25
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Why is it important that there is a delay before the contraction of the ventricles?

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Allows the atria to fully contract and empty

26
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Why does the left ventricle have the highest blood pressure and why is this important?

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It has the most cardiac muscle so it contracts at a higher force which is important as it pumps blood to the whole body

27
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What is the role of the Purkyne tissue and the bundle of his?

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Conduct the electrical impulse

28
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What is the effect of adrenaline on heart muscle?

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Beats faster

Beats stronger : myoctyes contract with greater force

29
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How does adrenaline increase heart rate?

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It binds to specific receptors on the membranes of cells in the SAN

30
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What do baroreceptors detect?

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Change in pressure

31
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Response to high blood pressure in the heart

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Detected by baroreceptors
Then via parasympathetic
Releases acetylcholine

32
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How are the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems antagonistic?

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If one system contracts a muscle then the other relaxes

33
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The sympathetic nervous system does what to an activity?

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Speeds up activity

34
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The parasympathetic nervous system does what to an activity?

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Inhibits effectors and so slows down any activity

35
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Changes to heart rate are controlled by which region of the brain?

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Medulla oblongata

36
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What do rods detect in the eye?

A

Light vs dark

37
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What do cones detect in the eye?

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Wavelength i.e colour

38
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Describe a simple reflex arc

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Stimulus-receptor-sensory neurone-motor neurone- effector- response

39
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What are the types of photoreceptors in the eye?

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Cones and rods

40
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Why do rod cells provide low visual acuity?

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More than one rod cell shares the same synapse with a biopolar cell. As a result multiple rods need to be stimulated to give a generator potential

41
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Why do cone cells provide good visual acuity?

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each cone cell has its own synapse via a bipolar neurone connecting to the optic nerve

42
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The speed of an action potential depends on?

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Presence or absence of a myelin sheath
Diameter of an axon
Temperature

43
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What is the refractory period?

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A period where the neuron cannot become excited as sodium ion channels enter a recovery stage

44
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Why is the refractory period important

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Prevents action potentials travelling in the wrong direction

45
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What are some of the roles of synapses?

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Prevent action potentials travelling in the wrong direction
Amplify the effects of low frequency action potentials
Inhibitory or excitory

46
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What happens when an action potential reaches a synapse?

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Presynaptic membrane depolarises
Ca2+ channels open
Calcium ions diffuse into presynaptic neurone

47
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Roles of calcium ions in transmission across a synapse?

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Causes the fusion of vesicles filled with neurotransmistter with presynaptic membrane

48
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Role of neurotransmitter in transmission across a synapse

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Released into synaptic cleft
Binds to receptors in the post synaptic membrane which stimulates the opening of Na+ channels allowing Na+ ions to enter neurone

49
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What happens to acetylchloline after an action potential has been generated?

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Acetylchloinesterase hydrolyses it and it diffuses back into presynaptic membrane where it can be reused and prevents continous generation of an action potential

50
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Why is the response in heart beat less in diabetic rats?

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Damage to autonomic nervous system 
Pressure receptors dont work as well 
Damage to medulla 
Change in number of impulses to medulla 
Damage to sympathetic system so doesnt speed up enough

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