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Peripheral Nervous System Flashcards

1
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What does the central nervous system consist of?

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The brain and the spine

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What does the peripheral nervous system consist of?

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Everything that’s not the brain and spine

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What is another name for sensory?

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Afferent

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What is included in the sensory?

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  • Sight
  • Touch
  • Hearing
  • Tast
  • Smell
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What are the divisions of the peripheral nervous system?

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  • Motor
  • Splits in to autonomic and somatic
  • Autonomic splits into: Parasympathetic and sympathetic and enteric
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What is another name for motor?

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Efferent

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What is the somatic effectors?

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Skeletal muscles

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Is the somatic response voluntary or involuntary?

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Voluntary

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Is the automatic response voluntary or involuntary?

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Involuntary

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What are the effectors involved in the automatic response?

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Cardiac muscle/smooth muscle/exocrine glands/some endocrine glands/adipose tissue

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What is the phrase used to explain the parasympathetic nervous system?

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Rest and digest

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What is the phrase used to explain the sympathetic nervous system?

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Fight and flight

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What are the effector for enteric?

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Gastrointestinal tract

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How many pairs of cranial nerves do we have in the brain?

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12 pairs

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What are the 12 pairs of cranial nerves?

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  • Olfactory
  • Optic
  • Trigeminal
  • Facial
  • Glossopharyngeal
  • Vagus
  • Accessory
  • Hypoglossal
  • Vestibulocochlear
  • Abducens
  • Trochlear
  • Oculomotor
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16
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What are the intermediate nerve for sensory?

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Soft palate and anterior tongue

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What are the intermediate nerve for motor?

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Sublingual and submaxillary gland

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18
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What type of nerve is olfactory?

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Sensory - smell

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What type of nerve is optic?

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Sensory - sight

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What type of nerve is trigeminal?

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Sensory - face, sinuses and teeth

Motor - muscles of mastication

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What type of nerve is facial?

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Motor - muscle of the face

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What type of nerve is glossopharyngeal?

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Sensory - tonsil, pharynx, posterior tongue

Motor - Pharyngeal musculature

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What type of nerve is vagus?

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Sensory - Heart, lungs, bronchi, trachea, larynx, pharynx, GI tract, external ear
Motor - heart, lungs, bronchi, GI tract

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What type of nerve is accessory?

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Motor - sternocleidomastoid and trapezium muscles

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What type of never is hypoglossal?

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Motor - muscle of the tongue

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What type of nerve is vestibulocohlear?

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Sensory - inner ear

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27
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What type of nerve is abducens?

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Motor - external rectus muscle

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28
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What type of nerve is trochlear?

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Motor - Superior oblique muscle

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What type of nerve is oculomotor?

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All eye muscles expect for external rectus and superior oblique muscles

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30
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How many pairs of spinal nerves are there?

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31 pairs

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31
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How is the spine split up?

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  • Brainstem
  • Cervical
  • Thoracic
  • Lumbar
  • Sacral
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32
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What are the sections in the brainstem?

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iii,
vii,
ix,
x

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33
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What are the sections in the cervical?

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C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C6, C7, C8

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What are the sections in the thoracic?

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T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6, T7, T8, T9, T10, T11, T12

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What are the sections in the lumbar?

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L1, L2, L3, L4, L5

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What are the sections in the sacral?

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S1, S2, S3, S4, S5

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37
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What is the ganglion?

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Cluster of neural bodies outside of the CNS

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38
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What are examples of sensory ganglia?

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Dorsal root ganglion

Cranial nerves

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39
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What are examples of autonomic ganglia?

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Sympathetic chain ganglia

Terminal ganglia

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40
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What are preganglionic neurones?

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Neurons from brain stem and spinal neurones

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What happens in the autonomic nervous system?

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  • Axon extends to and synapses with cell of 2nd neurones that lies in ganglion
  • Axon of this neurones or postganglionic fibre supplies effector cells
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42
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What are the preganglionic neurons like in parasympathetic nervous system?

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Long

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43
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What are the postganglionic neurons like in parasympathetic nervous system?

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short

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44
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What are the preganglionic neurons like in sympathetic nervous system?

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Short

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45
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What are the postganglionic neurons like in sympathetic nervous system?

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Long

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46
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What is meant by a two neural chain?

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preganglionic to postganglionic fibre

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47
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What are the sympathetic nerve fibre?

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Lateral horn of thoracic/lumbar

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48
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What are the parasympathetic nerve fibre?

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cranial/sacral areas of CNS

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49
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Where are myelin in peripheral nervous system derived from?

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Schwann cells

50
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Where are myelin in the central nervous system derived from?

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Oligodendrocytes

51
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Where can you find varicosity?

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At the ends of postganglionic fibres

52
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What is varicosity?

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Swelling at the end of post ganglionic fibre which release neurotransmitters

53
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What are telodendria?

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Pearl like structures with varicosity (contains neurotransmitter)

54
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What are the two main receptors in the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system?

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GPCR and ligand-gated ion channels

55
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What type of receptor is an ionotropic receptor?

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Ligand-gated receptor

56
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What type of receptor is a metabotropic receptor?

57
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Which has a fast synaptic transmission ionotropic or metabotropic receptors?

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Ionotropic receptord

58
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What is the postsynaptic receptor of the ionotropic receptor directly link to?

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Ion channels

59
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Is there direct excitation or inhibition in metabotropic receptors?

60
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How does a ionotropic receptors work?

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Na+ channels opened causing membrane depolarisation, excitatory neurotransmission

61
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How does metabotropic receptors work?

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Postsynaptic receptors signals to channel proteins via G-protein via intracellular 2nd messengers

62
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What response does metabotropic receptors cause?

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  • Alter transcription factor
  • Alter electrical activity
  • Stimulate secreation
63
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What response does inotropic receptors cause?

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K+ or Cl- channels are opened causing hyperpolarisation, inhibitory neurotransmission

64
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What is the receptor for acetylcholine?

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Cholinergic receptor

65
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What are the two types of cholinergic receptors?

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  • Nicotinic-ACh receptors

- Muscarinic-ACh receptors

66
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Does nicotinic-ACh receptors cause excitatory or inhibitory effect?

67
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What are the effectors to nicotinic-ACh receptors?

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  • Skeletal muscles
  • Ganglion
  • CNS
68
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Does muscarinic-ACh receptors cause excitatory or inhibitory effect?

69
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What are the effectors to muscarinic-ACh receptors?

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  • Smooth muscle
  • Cardiac muscle
  • Glands
70
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What type of receptor is muscarinic-ACh receptors?

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Ligand-gated ion channels (Ionotropic)

71
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What type of receptor is nicotinic-ACh receptors?

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GPCR (metabotropic)

72
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What domains do muscarinic-ACh receptors have?

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Extracellular, transmembrane and intercellular

73
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What domains do nicotinic-ACh receptors have?

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2 binding domains for ACh

74
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What receptors are for noradrenaline?

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Adrenergic receptors

75
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What are the subclassifications for adrenergic receptors?

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a1, a2, B1, B2, B3

76
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What is the result of a1 adrenergic receptor?

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Sympathetic target tissue

77
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What is the result of a2 adrenergic receptor?

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digestive organ, platelets and nerver terminals

78
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What is the result of B1 adrenergic receptor?

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Heart, salivary glands

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What is the result of B2 adrenergic receptor?

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Smooth, skeletal, nerve terminal and mast cells

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What is the result of B3 adrenergic receptor?

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Skeletal, adipose, gallbladder, urinary bladder

81
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Is a1 adrenergic receptor excitatory or inhibitory?

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Excitatory

82
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Is a2 adrenergic receptor excitatory or inhibitory?

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inhibitory

83
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Is B1 adrenergic receptor excitatory or inhibitory?

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Excitatory

84
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Is B2 adrenergic receptor excitatory or inhibitory?

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Inhibitory

85
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What type of receptor is adrenergic receptor?

86
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What does B1,B2,B3 adrenergic receptors do?

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Activates adenylyl cyclase - increases cAMP (they have different consequences: constriction or relaxation)

87
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What does a1 adrenergic receptors do?

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Activates phospholipase C, leading to inositol triphosphate (IP3) and diacylglycerol - increase in Ca2+ smooth muscle contraction

88
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What does a2 adrenergic receptors do?

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Inhibits adenylyl cyclase, leading to reduced cAMP

89
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What do sympathetic postganglionic fibres usually release?

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Noradrenaline

90
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What does sympathetic postganglionic fibres release in the sweat glands?

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acetylcholine

91
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What happens if there is no neurotransmission of noradrenalin or acetylcholine?

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  • Use chemical mediators instead

- E.G ATP recreated to blood vessels to cause vasocontriction

92
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Can some neurons have more than one neurotransmitter?

93
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What is the sympathetic effects of stimulation of arrestor pill muscles?

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-Contraction, erection of hairs (a1)

94
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What is the parasympathetic effects of stimulation of arrestor pill muscles?

95
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What is the sympathetic effects of stimulation of sweat glands?

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Secretion: palm and soles (a1), generalised (cholinergic)

96
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What is the parasympathetic effects of stimulation of sweat glands?

97
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What is the sympathetic effects of stimulation of lacrimal glands?

98
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What is the parasympathetic effects of stimulation of lacrimal glands?

99
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What is the sympathetic effects of stimulation of eye?

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Pupil dilation (a1)
accommodation distance (B2)
100
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What is the parasympathetic effects of stimulation of eye?

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Pupil constriction

Accommodation close

101
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What is the sympathetic effects of stimulation of blood vessels to skin?

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Dilation (ACh); constriction (a1)

102
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What is the parasympathetic effects of stimulation of blood vessels to skin?

103
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What is the sympathetic effects of stimulation of blood vessels to skeletal muscles?

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Dilation (B2, cholinergic, nitroxinergic)

104
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What is the parasympathetic effects of stimulation of blood vessels to skeletal muscles?

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What is the sympathetic effects of stimulation of blood vessels to heart?

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Dilation (B2), constriction (a1, a2)

106
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What is the parasympathetic effects of stimulation of blood vessels to heart?

107
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What is the sympathetic effects of stimulation of blood vessels to lungs?

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Dilation (B2); constriction (a2)

108
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What is the parasympathetic effects of stimulation of blood vessels to lungs?

109
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What is the sympathetic effects of stimulation of blood vessels to kidney?

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Dilation (increase urine production B1/B2) Constriction (decrease urine production a1/a2)

110
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What is the parasympathetic effects of stimulation of blood vessels to kidney?

111
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What is the sympathetic effects of stimulation of blood vessels to brain?

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Dilation (cholinergic and nitroxidergic)

112
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What is the parasympathetic effects of stimulation of blood vessels to brain?

113
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What is the sympathetic effects of stimulation of veins?

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Constriction (Decrease urine production a1/B2)

114
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What is the parasympathetic effects of stimulation of veins?

115
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What is the sympathetic effects of stimulation of heart?

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Increase heart rate, contractile force, BP (a1,B1)

116
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What is the parasympathetic effects of stimulation of heart?

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Decrease heart rate, contractile force, BP

117
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Finish the sentence:

Both the parasympathetic and sympathetic division of autonomic nervous system, acetylcholine is released by….

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preganglionic fibres

118
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Finish the sentence:
Both the parasympathetic and sympathetic division of autonomic nervous system, acetylcholine is released by preganglionic fibres and interact with…

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nicotinic Ach receptors at ganglion

119
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What happens when the bladder is not full relating to the peripheral nervous system?

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Sympathetic nervous system causes bladder to relax and internal urethral sphincter closes

120
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What happens when the bladder is full relating to the peripheral nervous system?

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Parasympathetic nervous system causes bladder to contract and internal urethral sphincter relax

121
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What hormone is released and what is its’ bind receptors in the parasympathetic?

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Acetylcholine with muscarinic receptor

122
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What hormone is released and what is its’ bind receptors in the sympathetic?

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Noradrenaline with adrenergic receptors

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