AP Exam 4 Flashcards
Somatic Efferent
- 1 motor neuron
- to skeletal muscle
- voluntary
Autonomic Nervous System (a.k.a. Visceral Efferent)
- preganglionic and postganglionic neruons
- to smooth muscle, cardiac, glands
- Division: SNS & PNS
- involuntary
3 types of Prevertebral Ganglia
- Celiac ganglion
- Superior Mesenteric
- Inferior Mesenteric
Sent to Postganglionic
Celia Ganglia
- sends postg to UPPER ab structure (stomach liver)
- Solar Plexes
Superior Mesenteric
- sends postG to middle ab (small intestine)
Inferior Mesenteric Ganglion
- sends postG to lower ab/pelvic (large intestine)
Splanchnic Nerve
- Viscera.GUTS
Cholinergic Fiber
- pre/postganglionic are in PNS
- Pre is only in SNS
Adrenergic
- Postganglionic fiber is in SNS
Types of Autonomic Receptors
- Acetylcholine
- Norepinephrine/Epinephrine
2 Types of Receptor Receiving Acetylcholine
- Muscarinic found on effectors in PNS
- Nicotinic found on the SNS & PNS
2 Types of receptors for Norepinephrine/Epinephrine
- Alpha I & 2- 1’s most common (stimulate muscles)
- Beta I- found in heart-stimulatory effect
- Beta 2- inhibitory
- Relaxation response of smooth muscle during fight or flight.
Atropine on Autonomic Nervous System
- antimuscarinic
- block PNS
Define Sensation
- concious perception of internal/external environment
Receptor
- receiver of stimulus (dendrite)
- turns stimulus into electrical signal to travel along neuron
Generator Potential
- depolarization
- generates a change in membrane potential
Projection
- phantom pain
- projects sensation back as if you feel with finger not brain
Adaptation
- all sensations accept pain
- when stimulus is unchanging receptor stop responding
After Images
- when receptor is still responding for a short time after stimulus is gone
Modality
- ability to tell one sensation from another
Classify Receptor according to location of stimulus
- Exteroceptor
- Enteroceptor (internal)
- Proprioceptors (joins/tendons)
Classify receptor according to type of stimulus x4
- mechano, phys changes
- thermo
- chemo
- nocioceptors- pain
(TCMN)
Lateral Inhibition
- sharpening sensation
- stronger pathway inhibits weaker
Two Point Discrimination
- 2 closely spaced points as separate points
- denser receptors, better 2 point discrimination
Receptor Field
- served by a receptor
- small are sensitive (lips
- large not sensitive, thighs
Touch Receptors
- meissner’s/touch corpuscles
- near surface of skin and respond to light touch
The pacinian or Lamellated Corpuscles
- deeper
- respond to pressure
Repeated stimulation of tactile receptors
- leads to vibration
Thermoceptors
- free nerve endings
- so are pain receptors
- if you overstimulate any receptor you can get pain (cold)
Referred Pain
- When you interpret visceral pain incorrectly, as surface somatic pain.
- ex: heart attack
Types of Proprioceptive Receptors (2)
- Muscle Spindles
- Golgi Tendon Organs
- provid brain with muscle sense
- know what body is doing w/o looking
Muscle Spindles
- skeletal muscle cells with neuron ending wrapped around it
- respond to stretch of muscle
Golgi Tendon Organs
- respond to contraction of muscle
Olfaction
sense of smell
Gustation
sense of taste
4 main taste zones
- sweet, tip of tongue
- salt, posterior
- sour, on the sides
- bitter, back
Olfactory pathway
- dendrites of olfactory nerves (CR 1)
- superior nasal cavity
- pass through olfactory formina, synapse at olfactory bulb
- continues as olfactory tract, interpreted in temporal lobe of cerebral cortex
Gustatory pathway
- along CNerve 7 (anterior tongue), 9 (middle tongue), 10 (back of tongue/throat)
- interpreted in parital lobe of cerebral cortex
3 layers of th eyeball
- Fibrous Tunic
- Vascular Tunic
- Nervous Tunic