Week 2 Flashcards
What occurs during condition of injury?
Convergent signalling
Sometimes what would normally be innocuous stimuli feels painful
What is Allodynia?
Innocuous stimuli is felt as painful
What is Hyperalgesia?
Painful stimulus appears more painful
How can convergent processing be identified?
Knock on head
Rubbing head
What is the gate control theory?
Non-painful input closes the nerve “gates” to painful input
Prevent pain sensation from travelling to the CNS
What are the physiological mechanisms of sensation?
- Transduction
- Transmission
- Perception
- Modulation
What is transmission?
AP going from periphery to CNS and then upward through the system to our perception
Where does opioid receptors modulate in?
Brain and spinal cord
Central
What receptors are related to noxious heat?
TRPV1/2 or TREK channels
What is TRPA1 opened by?
Number of chemical mediators
What are cold stimuli mediated by?
TRPM8
What is TRPV1 ?
Capsaicin receptor (hot pepper)
Where does Bipolar neuron stay?
In visual system
Where does Pseudo-unipolar stay?
Somatosensory system or motor system
What is the function of contact projection neurons?
Send information more centrally
What can contact projection neurons induce?
Cognitive response
Behavioural response
Integration of other information
What is the major neurotransmitter of sensory afferent?
Glutamate
What is the function of AMPAR receptors?
Induce a fast polarising current
What is the function of Cl-?
Act as intracellular messenger altering metabolism of cells binding to EKC
Metabotropic receptors
Have links to GPCR to CAMP
What does Glutamate on the second neuron allow?
Plasticity
What can induce central sensitisation?
Metabotropic receptors
What can AP fired be?
Different sequence and intensity
What are examples of cutaneous?
Pricking
Stabbing
Burning
Well localised
What are examples of muscle?
Aching
Cramping
What are examples of Visceral?
Fullness
Dullness
Vague
In the muscle what is innocuous stimuli brought by?
Ad fibre and A fibre
What doesn’t the free nerve ending detect?
Innocuous stimuli
What are the characteristics of larger neurons?
Large diameter axons
Myelinated
What is C-fibre?
Slow conduction velocity
Myelinated fibres
Fast conduction velocity
What are C fibres?
Polymodal
A fibre
Low threshold mechanosensation
C fibres
High threshold
Mechano, thermo, chemonociception
What are itch fibres conveyed by?
C-fibres
What are C fibres important for?
Crude touch
What are properties of A fibres ?
Ad fibres can be innocuous
Fast conduction velocity
Low threshold mechanoreceptors
Innervate specific peripheral receptors
What are properties of C fibres?
Unmyelinated fibres Slow conduction velocity Innervate free nerve endings Predominantly polymodal nociceptors 2 subgroups: Peptide rich Peptide poor