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Nervous Coordination Flashcards

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Summarise nervous communication

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  • Fast
  • Short lived
  • Localised
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What does the CNS consist of

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Brain + Spinal Chord

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What does the peripheral nervous system consist of

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Somatic and Autonomic

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What does the somatic consist of

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Conscious control

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What does the autonomic consist of

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Unconscious activity such as homeostasis

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Summarise a receptor

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  • Specialised cell designed to detect a stimulus
  • Specific as will only detect one stimulus
  • Cell or protein
  • Transform stimulus into electrical nerve impulse
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How is resting potential maintained?

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  • Sodium potassium pump using ATP to transport 3 Sodium OUT and 2 potassium IN
  • Voltage gated sodium channel closed
  • Potassium ion channel open so diffuses out by electrochemical gradient but no equilibrium due to diffusion and the positive outside charge
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What is a generator potential

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A weak stimulus where some NA+ channels open and NA+ diffuses in, reaching the threshold potential

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Summarise an action potential

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  • Resting potential at first
  • Generator potential
  • Threshold reached
  • Na+ in until 40mv, (depolarisation) and then potassium gates open
  • Potassium diffuse out (hyper polarisation) when membrane potential more negative than resting potential due to slow closing of K+ channels
  • Refractory period at the end and prevents new AP occurring, and that they are discrete (non-overlapping and separate) and unidirectional
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10
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Summarise the all or nothing law of action potentials

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  • If a generator potential reaches threshold, AP occurs
  • Action potentials same size
  • Strong stimulus generates more AP (frequency increased)
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Why does myelination increase speed of an AP

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  • Schwann Cells that make myelin are an electrical insulator

- Impermeable to the movement of ions in and out

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Summarise saltatory conduction

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  • Neurone myelinated
  • Lots of Na+ and L+ in nodes of Ranvier
  • Depolarisation can only occur in nodes
  • AP jumps between nodes in a process called saltatory conduction
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Define salutary conduction

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When an action potential jumps between nodes of ranvier, so speeds up transmission of nerve impulse due to cytoplasm conducting enough charge to depolarise next node

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14
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How does temperature effect AP speed

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More kinetic energy so faster speeds up to 40C

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How does the diameter of an axon affect speed aP

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Greater diameter = faster AP

due to greater SA for ion movement and so less resistance

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Define synapse

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Junction between neurones whereby chemical transmission occurs

17
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Define cholinergic synapse

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One the uses acetylcholine

18
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Summarise synaptic transmission at a cholinergic synapse

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  • AP arrives at presynaptic knob
  • Voltage gated Ca2+ ions open and diffuse in
  • Cause vesicles to move towards membrane
  • Fuse and release acetylcholine by exocytosis
  • Diffuse across synaptic cleft and bind with receptors
  • Binding causes Na+ channels to open causing further AP if threshold reached
  • Acetylcholinesterase breaks down acetylcholine to stop response
19
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How are synapses unidirectional?

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  • Receptor on post synapse and neurotransmitter released from pre synapse from high to low conc.
20
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What is synaptic divergence?

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  • When neurones join many neurones

- AP spreads to other parts of body

21
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What is synaptic convergance?

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  • When many neurones join a single neurone amplifying the signal
22
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Summarise spatial summation

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  • When neurotransmitters from multiple neurones combine to trigger an AP
  • Weak stimulus creates only a few AP
23
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Summarise temporal summation

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  • Single AP does not always trigger an AP in next neurone

- Strong stimulus causes more frequent AP so more neurotransmitter increasing chance of next AP

24
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Define neuromuscular junction

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Synapse between motor neurone and muscle fibre

25
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Summarise what occurs at a neuromuscular junction

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  • Neurotransmitter released
  • binds to receptors
  • AP travels along sarcolema
  • Then travels down traverse tubules which meet the sarcoplasmic reticulum
  • Ca2+ ions released
26
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Differences between neuromuscular junction and synapse

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  • Muscular junction has more receptors so AP more likely
  • Acetylcholinesterase found in pits
  • Receptors called nicotinic cholinergic receptors
27
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Why are muscles in antagonistic pairs

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Muscles only pull, they cannot push

28
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Define ligament and tendon

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Ligaments attach bone to bone and tendons attach bone to muscle

29
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Summarise skeletal muscle

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  • Lots of mitochondria
  • Muscle fibres
  • Multinucleate (many nuclei)
  • Myofibrils containing myofilaments of actin and myosin
30
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A band
I band
H band
M Line
Z Line
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A = Myosin
I = Inbetween Myosin
H = Inbetween actin
M = Middle
Z =. End
31
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Summarise a sarcomere when relaxed

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  • Actin myosin binding site blocked by tropomyosin

- Prevents actin myosin cross bridge forming

32
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Summarise a sarcomere when contracted

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  • Ca2+ released
  • Tropomyosin moves
  • Allows actin myosin cross bridge to be formed
33
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Role of Ca2+ and ATP in muscle contraction

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Move tropomyosin
Stimulate ATPase

ATP change shape of myosin head (bend myosin head) causing power stroke
Active transport of Ca2+ into sarcoplasmic reticulum
Detaches myosin head from actin

34
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How is ATP made for muscle contraction

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  • Phosphocreatine binds with ADP to produce ATP
35
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Summarise fast twitch muscle fibres

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  • Contract and relax quickly
  • High force of contraction
  • Fatigue quickly
  • Respire anaerobically so few mitochondria, little blood supply and less myoglobin
  • High intensity and short duration
36
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Summarise slow twitch muscle fibres

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  • Contract and relax slowly
  • Low force of contraction
  • Resistance to fatigue
  • Respire aerobically so lots of mitochondria, good blood supply, myoglobin
  • Little anaerobic respiration
  • Low intensity and long duration

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