Peripherla Nervius Systme Flashcards

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PNS divides into

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Somatic and autonomic
Sensory(afferent) carries info towards CNS
motor (efferent) carry info away from CNS

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How many pairs of cranial and spinal nerves are there

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12 cranial
31 spinal

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What do somatic afferent and efferent nerves convey info from and to?

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  • Somatic afferent nerves convey info from skin, skeletal muscle and joints
  • Somatic efferent nerves convey info to skeletal muscles
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Dermatomes

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An area of skin supplied by single spinal nerve

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Myotome

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A group of muscles innervated by a single spinal nerve

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  • What do visceral (autonomic) nerves convey info from and to?
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  • Visceral afferent nerves carry info from viscera (thoracic, abdominal and pelvic organs)
  • Visceral efferent nerves can be divided into sympathetic and parasympathetic
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What do sympathetic efferent nerves innervate

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The viscera and periphery

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What do parasympathetic efferent nerves innervate

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Viscera only

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Where do all afferent (somatic and visceral) fibres have their cell bodies?

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Spinal ganglia (same as dorsal root ganglion)

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Where do visceral efferent nerves synapse

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Peripheral ganglion

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Ganglion

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Collection of neuronal cell bodies outside of the CNS

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Nucleus

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Collection of cell bodies inside the CNS

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13
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Plexus

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Network of interconnecting nerves

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How are peripheral nerves arranged at spinal vertebrae

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3 layers
1) individual axons have the endoneurium around them
2)the axons bundle together to form a fascicle which is covered in perineurium
3)fascicles bundle together to form the spinal nerve with the epineurium around it

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How can peripheral nerves be classified

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  • One based on conduction velocityuses letters A, B and C (A the fastest)
  • One based on axonal diameter (sensory nerves only) → uses Roman numerals I-IV (I the largest diameter)
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What two properties do faster conducting peripheral nerves have

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Myelination
Larger diameter

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How can sensory receptors be classified

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Exteroreceptors respond to external stimuli like pain temp touch and pressure

Propioreceptors and enteroreceptors respond to internal stimuli

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Chemoreceptors

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Detect molecules which bind to receptor in olfactory

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Photoreceptors

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Detect light in retina

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Thermoreceptors

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Temp in skin

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Mechanoreceptors

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Mechanical opening of ion channels eg touch receptors in skin

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Nociceptors

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Tissue damage interpreted as pain

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Where are proprioreceptors located

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Muscle spindles are small sensory organs that detect whether muscle has been stretched

Golgi tendon organs detect changes in tension in tendons

Joint receptors found in joint capsules and detect start and end of movement

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Neuromuscular joints

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Specialized synapse between a motor neurone and muscle fibre

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Motor units
A single motor neurone with all muscle fibres it innervates Humans have 420k motor neurone and 259 mil skeletal muscle fibres
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Reflex action
An involuntary coordinated pattern of muscle contraction and relaxation elicited by peripheral stimuli
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Reflex action when tendon hammer hits patella ligament
1. Stretching stimulates **sensory receptor** (muscle spindle) 2. **Sensory neurone** activated 3. Sensory neurone activates **motor neurone** within the spinal cord (integrating centre) 4. **Motor neurone** is activated 5. Effector (**quadricep muscle of thigh**) contracts -
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Which cranial nerves do visceral sensory neurones run into
IX - Glossopharyngeal Nerve X - Vagus Nerve Relay painn fullness and bp
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What do the visceral motor neurones control?
Pupils, sweat glands, salivary glands, heart muscle, airways -thoracolumbar and craniosacral outflow Cranial nerves 3,7,9,10
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Where is the sympathetic system said to have its outflow and what is this outflow known as?
Thoracolumbar region of spinal cord So cells only emerge from T1 to L2 Thoracolumbar outflow
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Where is the parasympathetic system said to have its outflow and what this outflow also known as?
Pre-ganglionic neurones emerge from the brain stem and sacral portion of spinal cord Craniosacral outflow
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Where does visceral motor synapse
For sympathetic if going to head or skin it synapses in sympathetic chain and elsewhere it synapses to pre aortic ganglia For parasympathetic it synapses in ganglia
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Sympathetic outflow to periphery
Sympathetic nerves arise from thoracic and lumbar region forming sympathetic chain Form the symmetric chain post ganglionic fibres project to target tissues in periphery Controls blood vessel diameter and pilo erection
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Anatomy of sympathetic outflow to heart
Sympathetic nerves innervate cardiac plexus . Post ganglionic fibres release noradrenaline onto cardiac plexus
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Sympathetic outflow to heart
Cervical chord have no preganglionic neurons s they have no lateral horn T1-T4 have preganglionic neurones which go into sympathetic chain which synapse or go into another chain and synapse Sympathetic nerves going to heart have preganglionic chord which go into chain synapses at the same level or else where
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Sympathetic outflow to viscer
To the heart synapse in sympathetic chain To skin synapse in sympathetic chain Other organs synapses at other gangli at the front of the aorta All start in preganglionic neurons of throacolumbar chord. They synapse at pre aortic ganglia synapse