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Practice lecture #2 questions Flashcards

Topics I was shaky on/ need to review from Cassidy's lecture 2 practice test

1
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Schwann cells are found in the _______ while Oligodendrocytes are in the _______.

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Schwann in PNS; oligodendrocytes in the CNS

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What adds rigidity to an axon?

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Neurofilaments

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What are the 3 cytoskeletal components that mediate neuronal transport?

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Neurofilaments, microfilaments, and microtubules

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________ are composed of actin and myosin, which are extensions of axons and dendrites involved in structural support and organelle transport

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Microfilaments

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This cytoskeletal component is aided by kinesin and dynein proteins.

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Microtubules

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_____________ is an autoimmune disease in which myelin is destroyed

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MS

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Name the 3 ions needed for neuronal excitability

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Na+, K+, and Cl-

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At the threshold potential of a voltage gated channel, Na+ becomes 600x more permeable than K+ and sets off a ____________ of Na+ voltage gated channels opening.

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Positive feedback

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9
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An action potential can only be generated during what period by a stronger than usual trigger?

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Relative refractory period

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In regards to action potentials, a stronger stimulus leads to what?

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More action potentials

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A fiber with a _____ diameter and more myelination would result in a faster action potential

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larger

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What neurotransmitter is used in CNS pathways for mood, behavior, stress, consciousness, and muscles?

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Serotonin

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What neurotransmitter is released from nerves that supply muscle and exocrine glands?

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Acetylcholine

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What neurotransmitter is involved in cardiac muscle, exocrine glands, and CNS pathways for memory, mood, emotion, behavior, perception, and sleep?

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Norepinephrine

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What two neurotransmitters are involved in exocrine glands?

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Acetylcholine released from nerves that supply glands, norepinephrine also involved with them

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What neurotransmitter is involved in similar CNS pathways to norepinephrine?

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Dopamine

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17
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What is the most common neuromodulator involved with long lasting events like learning and motivation?

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Neuropeptides

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List 4 neuromodulators involved with long-lasting events like learning and motivation

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Neuropeptides
ATP
Nitrous oxide
Endocannabinoids

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List 4 groups of chemical signaling molecules

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Paracrines/autocrines
Neurotransmitters
Hormones
Neurohormones

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What are the two most common types of paracrines?

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Cytokines and eicosanoids

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Cytokines’ role in paracrine communication is what?

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Enhance antibody-producing cells, involved in healing, growth, and cellular differentiation

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What do autocrines act on?

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Only on the cells that secreted it

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23
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What releases neurohormones? Where?

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Neurosecretory neurons into the blood

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24
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Name 2 short distance signaling molecules

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Paracrines (act on nearby cells) and neurotransmitters (across synaptic cleft)

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What type of Eicosanoids are involved in inflammatory responses?

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Leukotrienes

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26
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1) What are eicosanoids?
2) What are the 3 classes?

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1) Lipid signal molecules & a type of paracrine
2) Prostaglandins, leukotrienes, and thromboxanes

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What type of eicosanoid was thought to have only been involved in reproduction?

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Prostaglandins

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Chemoreceptors are involved in what two senses?

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Olfaction and taste

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The rule that states that larger responses don’t produce larger AP, but can trigger more AP’s, is what?

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All-or-none Law

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30
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The acute pain you feel in your thumb when you accidentally strike it with a hammer is an example of what?

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Tonic (slow) adaptation

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31
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Any damage to the ____________ would cause a decrease in action potentials.

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hypodermis

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32
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The type of adaptation when you stop smelling a smell in a room very quickly is called?

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Phasic adaptation

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33
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Pacinian and Meissner corpuscles do what kind of adaptation?

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Phasic (fast) adaptation

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34
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1) What is the origin of hearing? What type of receptor is involved?
2) What is the origin of sight?

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1) Organ of Corti; mechanoreceptor
2) Retina

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35
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Give 2 examples of interoception and which organ is involved in each

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1) Aortic arch baroreceptors; aortic arch
2) pH receptors; aortic arch/ medulla oblongata

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36
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What receptors sense gentle touch?

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Hair receptors

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37
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What senses sustained touch and texture, like when reading Braille?

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Merkel’s disc

38
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What senses vibration and deep pressure?

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Pacinian corpuscle

39
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What type of receptors adapt quickly and are sensitive? Give an example of when they’re used

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Meissner’s corpuscle; tickling with feather

40
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Describe how tactile mechanoreceptors work

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Mechanical force changes cation channel proteins, Na+ enters, causing an afferent action potential

41
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Name the three types of sensory thermal sensation receptors

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Cold, warmth, and pain receptors.

42
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Thermal receptor signals enter ascending fibers in the _________ tract and terminate in the _________ and ___________

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anterolateral; brainstem and thalamus

43
Q

Which layer of the eye provides nutrients for cornea and lens? Where is it?

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Aqueous humor in anterior cavity between cornea and lens

44
Q

A patient who has glaucoma had an increase in what kind of liquid?

A

Aqueous humor

45
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What jelly-like layer of the eye maintains shape? Where is it?

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Vitreous humor in interior cavity between lens and retina

46
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An astigmatism is an irregularity in the curvature of what?

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Cornea

47
Q

The ability to adjust the strength of what is known as accommodation?

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the Lens

48
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When viewing a far away object, you can expect the lens to be ______.

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Lens flat (weak)

49
Q

When the ciliary muscle is relaxed, what are the ligaments like?

A

Taut

50
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When is the ciliary muscle in its default position?

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When viewing far away objects and muscle is relaxed

51
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When focusing on a nearby object, what part of the eye increases in width?

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Lens strength (width) is increased

52
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When is the eye not doing accomodation?

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When looking far away

53
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Define emmetropia

A

Normal vision

54
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When a patient develops a cataract, their transparent fibers in the ___________ have become opaque.

A

Lens

55
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True or false: the lens is only made of a few layers of cells

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False; has 1000 layers

56
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______ occurs when the eye is too long, and ________ occurs when an eye is too short.

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Myopia, Hyperopia

57
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__________ occurs when the lens is too strong/ wide

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Myopia

58
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1) What does the outer layer of the retina contain?
2) What does the middle layer of the retina contain?
3) What does the inner layer of the retina contain?

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1) Outer: Rods and cones
2) Middle: Bipolar cells, interneurons
3) Inner: Ganglion cells; axons form optic nerve

59
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Name the area in the back of the eye that’s the center of the retina, where only cones are located

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Fovea

60
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What is the leading cause for blindness in the western hemisphere and what does it cause?

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Age related macular degeneration; central vision loss

61
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This region is where the optic nerve and blood vessels pass through

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Optic disc

62
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When photoreceptors die as someone gets older, what is this called?

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Age related macular degeneration

63
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What changes confirmation in light vs in the dark?

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Retinal component of rhodopsin

64
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The region with the sharpest vision is called?

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Fovea

65
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This region of the eye does not contain any rods or cones

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Optic disc

66
Q

Vitamin A deficiency would most likely damage what? What would this affect?

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Retinal component of rhodopsin; would affect rods (help us see light)

67
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Unlike other receptors, photoreceptors _______ when stimulated

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Hyperpolarize

68
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Why do photoreceptors hyperpolarize?

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cGMP (chemical messenger) keeps chemically gated Na+ channels open

69
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True or false: The wavelengths of any visible color are those leftover after pigments wavelengths are selectively absorbed.

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True

70
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1) What is the lateral geniculate nuclei?
2) What does it do?

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1) Relay center in thalamus
2) Receives input from the retina and transmits information to the primary visual cortex

71
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A patient who has trouble recognizing faces most likely has a problem in what part of the body?

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Primary visual cortex in the occipital lobe

72
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If the optic chiasm is damaged or severed, which field of vision would be disrupted?

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Outer vision of both eyes

73
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If the left optic nerve is damaged or severed, which field of vision would be disrupted?

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Entire left eye

74
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If the left optic tract is damaged or severed, which field of vision would be disrupted?

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The right sides of both eyes

75
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The high pressure part of sound waves is a result of what?

A

Air molecule compression

76
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The low pressure part of sound waves is a result of what?

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Air molecule rarefaction (decrease in density)

77
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_________________ in the __________ ear is necessary for sense of equilibrium/ balance

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vestibular apparatus; inner ear

78
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What part of the ear determines pitch and loudness?

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Basilar membrane

79
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In order for the tympanic membrane (TM) to properly bow in and out, the air pressure must be:

A

equal on both sides

80
Q

Pitch is determined by _________ the basilar membrane vibrates, while loudness is determined by __________ it vibrates.

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“where”;”how much”

81
Q

Conductive deafness is most likely caused by what?

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Physical blockage, TM rupture, infection

82
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What type of deafness results from loud sounds and aging?

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Sensorineural

83
Q

True or false: Each taste receptor cell responds to multiple tastants

A

False, each only responds to one

84
Q

Age-related degenerative hearing loss is called?

A

Neural presbycusis

85
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Where is the primary gustatory cortex located?

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Lateral sulcus

86
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What two kinds of taste block K+ from leaving the cell?

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Sweet and sour

87
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What kind of taste involves amino acids and glutamate?

A

Umami

88
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Memories of smelling grandma’s apple pie travel down what pathway in olfaction?

A

Higher center to the orbitofrontal cortex

89
Q

Unconscious smell involves what?

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Lower centers to the temporal lobes, thalamus and hypothalamus

90
Q

What organ detects pheromones?

A

Vomeronasal organ

91
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Binding of a receptor in the Vomeronasal organ triggers an AP to which system?

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Limbic system

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