Week 8 roop Flashcards
double vision
dipoplia
slurred speech
dysarthria
difficulty swallowing
dysphagia
nerve conduction and muscle conduction. It can diagnose motor neuron diseases.
EMG
____: muscle strengthener and it rules out Myasthenia gravis
-it is acetylcholinesterase inhibitors
edrophonium
why do you need to keep atropine on hand when you use edrophonium?
decreases heart rate and constricts airways
if your muscle strength improves after use of edrophonium you have _____, if your muscle strength does not improve ______
- myasthenia gravis
- muscle weakness is due to other reasons
____is gram positive, spore-forming, anaerobic bacillus
-produces neurotoxin, botulinum
-people still die from this today from home canning
clostridum Botulinum
in botulinum neurotoxin, what happens at a motor neuron when action potential arrives at presynaptic terminal?
-calcium influx
-botulinum destroys SNARE proteins, vesicles cant fuse, no ach release cant bind to receptors, FLACCID PARALYSIS
____help vesicles fuse to presynaptic membranes
snare proteins
the SNAP SNARE proteins allow docking of the vesicles with the cell membrane, fusion and then ____of the ACh into the synaptic cleft
exocytosis
Flaccid paralysis occurs first in cranial muscles and is ______
-it will spread to other proximal muscles and then to distal muscles
symmetrical
what are the muscles paralyzed that result in droopy eyelids _____
levator palpebrae superioris muscle
what are the muscles that result in dysphagia _____
upper esophageal sphincter muscle
what muscles are effected causing double vision ____
any optic muscles
what is the time for symptoms to appear after ingestion of food-borne toxin?
begin 18-36 hours on average
what is the treatment for botulinum toxin?
-doctors treat with antitoxin, this prevents the toxin from causing any more harm
-antitoxin does not heal damage the toxin has already done
what will happen if patient is not treated for botulinum toxin?
-the disease may progress and symptoms may worsen to cause full paralysis of some muscles, including those used in breathing and those in the arms, legs and trunk (part of body from neck to pelvis area, called torso)
-will affect diaphragm muscles so patient is unable to breathe give ventilator
how long would patient have to remain in hospital? what are you trying to achieve physiologically?
-weeks to months, until symptoms disappear
-restoration of snare proteins
botulinum neurotoxin is considered the _____
deadliest toxin