NEURO PHYSIO Flashcards
AXON TERMINAL to SOMA (CELL BODY)
Recycles synaptic vesicle membrane for lysosomal degradation
Retrograde Axonal Transport
What do you call the death of the axon distal to the site of injury after an axon is transected?
ANTEROGRADE/ORTHOGRADE DEGENERATION
What do you call the changes to the soma after an axon is transected?
AXONAL REACTION/ CHROMATOLYSIS
Axonal regeneration occurs better in the CNs or PNS?
PNS
Used by a neuron to communicate with another neuron across a SYNAPSE
Maybe excitatory, inhibitory or both
NUEROTRANSMITTERS
Secreted by neurons in many areas:
- LARGE PYRAMIDAL CELLS IN MOTOR CORTEX
- BASAL GANGLIA (NUCLEUS BASALIS OF MEYNERT)
- SKELETAL MUSCLES
- ALL PREGANGLIONIC NEURONS OF ANS
- POSTGANGLIONIC NEURONS OF PARASYMPATHETIC NS
- SOME POSTGANGLIONIC NEURONS OF SYMPATHETIC NS
ACETYLCHOLINE
Synthesis: uses ACETYL COA and CHOLINE
Enzyme: CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE
Degradation: produces ACETATE and CHOLINE
Enzyme: ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE
CHOLINE is recycled
Is deficient in ALZHEIMER’s DISEASE
Acetylcholine (Ach)
Found mainly in the SUBSTANTIA NIGRA PARS COMPACTA AND VENTRAL SEGMENTAL AREA
Dopamine
Degraded by MAO (IN PRESYNAPTIC NERVE TERMINALS), COMT (IN TISSUES INCLUDING LIVER)
Dopamine
Dopamine deficiency
PARKINSON’s DISEASE
Dopamine excess
SCHIZOPHRENIA
Secreted by many neurons: BRAIN STEM HYPOTHALAMUS LOCUS CERULEUS IN THE PONS POSTGANGLIONIC NEURONS OF SYMPATHETIC NS
Norepinephrine and Epinephrine
Control overall activity and mood of the mind, such as increasing the level of WAKEFULNESS
may be EXCITATORY or INHIBITORY
NE and Epi acts on ADRENERGIC RECEPTORS
NE and Epi
ILOCUS NORte
LOCUS ceruleus = NORepinephrine
Phenylalanine derivatives
“PARE, TRUE LOVE DOES NOT EXIST to ME”
Phenylalanine Tyrosine L-Dopa Dopamine NE Epinephrine Thyroxine Melanin
Tryptophan derivatives
“TRIP MO SYA NOH?”
Tryptophan
Melatonin
Serotonin
Niacin
Secred mainly by the MEDIAN RAPHE OF THE BRAIN STEM
Serotonin
Inhibitor of pain pathways in the spinal cord
Serotonin
“happy hormone”
Low levels seen in clinical depression
Serotonin
From Tryptophan (W)
Serotonin
In the pineal gland, it is converted to MELATONIN
Serotonin
Serotonin
“Si MRS mahilig sa Dark na Tsokolate”
Median Raphe: Serotonin
converted to Melatonin (Dark)
comes from Tryptophan
Secreted in areas of the brain responsible for long term behavior and memory
Nitric Oxide
From Arginine
Nitric Oxide
Short acting inhibitory neurotransmitter
Nitric Oxide
Differences from other NTs:
not performed and stored in vesicles
- synthesized almost instantly as needed
- PERMEANT GAS THAT DIFFUSES TOWARDS ITS TARGET CELL
Nitric Oxide
From Histidine
HISTAMINE
Located mainly within the TUBEROMAMMILLARY NUCLEUS OF THE HYPOTHALAMUS
Histamine
Involved in control of AROUSAL, SLEEP AND CIRCADIAN RHYTHM
Histamine
INHIBITORY nuerotransmitter usually found in SPINAL INTERNEURONS
GLYCINE
Increases CHLORIDE INFLUX
GLYCINE
The number one INHIBITORY neurotransmitter in the brain (spiny neurons of striatum, Purkinje cells of cerebellum)
GABA
Comes from GLUTAMATE
GABA
Increases chloride influx (GABAs) or Potassium Efflux (GABAs)
GABA
The number one EXCITATORY neurotransmitter in the brain
GLUTAMATE
ENKEPHALINS, ENDORPHINS, DYNORPHINS
OPIOID PEPTIDES