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A&P I Test 2- Albertson > Nervous Tissue > Flashcards

Nervous Tissue Flashcards

1
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Provides for generation of nerve impulses (AP) that communicate with and regulate most body tissues

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Nervous tissue

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Maintaining homeostasis is shared by what two systems?

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Nervous system

Endocrine system

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How does the nervous system regulate body activities?

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Responding rapidly using nerve impulses

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How does the endocrine system respond to body activities?

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Slowly by use of hormones

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Neurology

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Deals with normal functioning and disorders of the nervous system

Neurologist

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6
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The central nervous system is made up of what?

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Brain

Spinal cord

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7
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The peripheral nervous system is made up of what?

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Cranial nerves
Spinal nerves
Peripheral nerves

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8
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What are the functions of the nervous system?

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Sensory
Integrative
Motor

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9
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How does sensory function in the nervous system?

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  • Receptors (detect changes inter/external)
  • Sensory never cells (neurons) carry sensory info from receptors to the brain and spinal cord
  • Sensory neurons are AFFERENT neurons
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10
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How does integrative function in the nervous system?

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  • Analyze and store info
  • Make decisions
  • Integrative neurons are interneurons, relatively short neurons in the brain, spinal cord, and ganglia that connect nearby neurons
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11
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How does motor function in the nervous system?

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  • Respond to decision
  • Motor neurons carry information from brain and spinal cord to effectors (muscles or glands)
  • Motor neurons are EFFERENT neurons
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12
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What is the general organization of the nervous system?

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Somatic
Autonomic
Enteric

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Somatic

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  • Sensation from body walls, limbs, head, special senses

- Motor control of skeletal muscle (voluntary)

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Autonomic

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  • Sensation from internal organs like heart, lungs, bladder

- Motor control of smooth and cardiac muscle, glands (involuntary)

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Enteric

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  • Sensation from gastrointestinal tract

- Motor control of smooth muscle and glands of GI (involuntary)

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16
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Consists of all nervous tissue outside the CNS

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PNS

  • Somatic nervous system (SNS)
  • Autonomic nervous system (ANS)
  • Enteric nervous system (ENS)
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17
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An association (bundle) of neural axons in the peripheral nervous system (Includes dendrites and other tissue)

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Nerve

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18
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Group of neuronal cell bodies in the PNS (plus associated tissue)

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Ganglion

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19
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Association (a bundle) of neuronal axons in the CNS

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Tract

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20
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An ossification (a bundle) of (unmyelinated) nerve cell bodies in the CNS)

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Nucleus

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21
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Network of nerves

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Plexus

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22
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Cells that possess electrical excitability (can do an AP)

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Neurons

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Cells of the nervous system that support, nourish, and protect the neurons

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Neuroglia

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24
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Are there more or less neuroglia than neurons?

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Yes

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25
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What are the basic parts of a neuron?

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The cell body

Nerve fibers comprising

  • an axon
  • dendrites
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26
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The cytoplasm of an axon

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Axoplasm

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27
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The plasmalemma of axon

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Axolemma

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28
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Dendrites (little trees)

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  • the receiving position of a neuron

- typically short, tapering, highly branched

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Axon

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  • Single axon per neuron
  • Propagates impulses to another neuron, muscle, or nerve
  • Aprox three feet long in humans
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30
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What happens if the axon is cut

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The distal fragment dies

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31
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What does the axon contain?

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Mitochondria
Microtubules
Neurofibrils

Does not contain RER so protein synthesis does not occur in axon

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32
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What are neurofibrils and what do they do?

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Intermediate filaments

Provide cell shape and support

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33
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What are microtubules and what do they do?

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Tubulin

Participate in moving material between the cell body and axon

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34
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In a typical neuron what are the specialized cells that aren’t in the most common cells?

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Nissan bodies

- prominent clusters of rough ER

35
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The axon typically arises from an elevation in the cell body called

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Axon hillock (= small hill)

36
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What is the first part of an axon called before the axon hillock?

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Initial segment

37
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Where do impulses (AP) generally arise from?

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The tigger zone

- junction of the hillock and initial segment

38
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What may branch off main axons?

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Axon collateral

39
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Axon and collaterals end by dividing into? Which end in ether?

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Axon terminals (telodendria)

Synaptic end bulbs
Or
Varicosities

40
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Synaptic end bulbs and varicosities are what?

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Bulb-shaped structures

String of swollen bumps

41
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What is a present in many neurons, yellowish brown pigment, accumulates with age

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Lipofuscin

42
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What is slow axonal transport?

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One-way only, from cell body to axon terminals

Transports axoplasm to growing or regenerating axons

43
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What is fast axonal transport?

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Two-way transport, both toward and away from cell body

A lot faster then slow

Transport organelles and materials that used to form axolemma membranes, synaptic end bulbs, and synaptic vesicles

44
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Where is the multipolar neuron found and what does it have?

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Brain and spinal cord, motor neurons

Several short dendrite, one axon

45
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Where is the bipolar neuron found and what does it have?

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In special sensory organs

One main dendrite, one axon

46
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Where is the unipolar neuron found and what does it have?

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Typical sensory neuron

Axon and dendritic are fused into a single process for a short distance, then split

Peripheral process

Central process

47
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Receptors, with dendrites at distal end; carries impulses toward the CELL BODY

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Peripheral process

48
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Carries impulses toward the CNS

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Central process

49
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What are GABAergic neurons?

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Purkinje cells

50
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What is the primary neural cell type in the corticospinal tract?

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Pyramidal neurons

51
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Characteristics of neuroglia

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  • Not excitable cells
  • Smaller
  • Play supporting role
  • Make up 1/2 volume of CNS
  • Neuroglia multiply to fill in the spaces formerly occupied by neurons
52
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Neuroglia of the CNS

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Astrocytes
Oligodendrocytes
Microglia
Ependymal cells

53
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Neuroglia of PNS

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Schwann cells (neurolemmocytes)
Satellite cells
54
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What do astrocytes do?

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Regulate composition of ECF in CNS

Help form the blood brain barrier

Take up excess neurotransmitters

Influence formation of neural synapses

55
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What do oligodendroctes do?

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Myelinated axons in the CNS

56
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What do microglia do?

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Phagocytes of the CNS

57
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What do ependymal cells do?

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Line the ventricles of the brain

Produce, monitor, and aid in circulation of CSF

Help form the blood-CSF barrier

58
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What do Schwann cells do?

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Myelinated axons in the PNS

59
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What is myelination produced by?

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Schwann cells (PNS)

Oligodendrocytes (CNS)

60
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What is Myelin?

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Multilayered complex of lipids and proteins

61
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Myelin prevents loss of electrical signal; speeds up conduction of nerve impulses

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Insulate axons

62
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Can a Schwann cell and or oligodendrocyte be associated with a unmyelinated neuron

63
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What does myelination require?

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Glial cell to have wrapped its plasma membrane around the axon many times

64
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What is the outer nucleated cytoplasmic layer of the Schwann cell?

65
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Unmyelinated axons can be associated with Schwann cells, they lay in grooves on surface of cell but what is there none of?

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Myelin sheath

Neurolemma

66
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What is contained in the neurolemma?

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Nucleus and all the cytoplasm

Not be confused with axolemma

67
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Only on nerve fibers supplied by potentially myelin-producing cells; gaps between myelinating cells (where no myelin)

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Nodes of Ranvier

Found in PNS and CNS

68
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What surrounds the nerve fiber of the Schwann cells?

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Endoneurium

69
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What is NOT present in the CNS because the olugodendrocyte cell body and nucleus cell body do NOT envelope the axon

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Neurolemma

Also do not have node of ranvier

70
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A region predominantly filled with myelinated tract fibers. Why is it colored this?

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White matter

The myelin produces whiteish color

71
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A region predominantly filled with neuronal cell bodies. Why is it colored this?

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Gray matter

Little or no myelin

Nissl bodies impart a gray color

72
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Electrical voltage difference across membrane

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Membrane potential

73
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How do neurons communicate with one another? Two types of electrical signals

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Action potentials (nerve impulses)

Graded potentials

74
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Which electrical signals are for short distance (localized)?

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Graded potentials

75
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For both short and long distance communication within the body. All or none.

76
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Both electrical signals depend on two features

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Existence of a resting membrane potential

Presence of specific ion channels

77
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Opposite charges are separated in space their attractive for is?

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Potential

Measured in volts

78
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Flow of charged atoms or molecules and what are two types?

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Current

Electrical current: flow of electrons
Body current: flow of ions

79
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Not gated; randomly open and close

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Leakage channels

80
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Neurotransmitter; channels open and close in repose to ligand binding

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Ligand-gated channels

81
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Response to mechanical stimuli (pressure)

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Mechanically gated channels

82
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Open and close in response to changes in the membrane potential

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Voltage-gated channels

83
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Voltage difference measured across the plasma membrane when the neuron isn’t signaling

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Resting membrane potential

84
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Average resting membrane potential

A&P I Test 2- Albertson (4 decks)

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