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What nervous system consists of ?

  • Brain and spinal cord
  • Integration and command center
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Central Nervous System

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What nervous system consists of ?

-Paired spinal and cranial nerves carry messages to and from the CNS

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Peripheral Nervous System

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What are the 2 functional divisions of the Peripheral Nervous System?

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  1. Sensory (Afferent) division

2. Motor (Efferent) division

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Somatic afferent fibers and visceral afferent fibers are part of Sensory (Afferent) or Motor (efferent) divisions?

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Sensory (Afferent) divison

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What afferent fibers is this ?

-fibers—convey impulses from skin, skeletal muscles, and joints

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Somatic afferent fibers

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What afferent fibers is this ?

-fibers—convey impulses from visceral organs

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Visceral Afferent fibers

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What efferent division is this?

-Transmits impulses from the CNS to effector organs

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Motor efferent division

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What motor division of PNS is this?

-Conscious control of skeletal muscles

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Somatic (voluntary) nervous system

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What motor division of PNS is this?

-Visceral motor nerve fibers
-Regulates smooth muscle, cardiac muscle, and glands
-Two functional subdivisions:
Sympathetic
Parasympathetic

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Autonomic (involuntary) nervous system (ANS)

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What are the 2 functional subdivisions of the Autonomic (involuntary) nervous system?

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  1. Sympathetic

2. Parasympathetic

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What nervous system does these parts belong too?

  • A. Brain
  • B. Spinal cord
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Central Nervous System

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What nervous system does these parts belong too?

  • A. Sensory
  • B. Motor
    a. Somatic
    b. Autonomic
    - Sympathetic
    - Parasympathetic
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Peripheral Nervous System

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What is the name of the excitable cells that transmit electrical signals?

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Neurons

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(glial cells)—supporting cells are also called?

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Neurolgia

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Name the cell.

-surround
 capillaries, neurons, synaptic
 endings forming the
 blood/brain barrier
--Most abundant
-Regulate components of
 the brain fluids
-Exchange of nutrients and
 waste
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Astrocytes

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Name the cell

  • Help determine capillary permeability
  • Guide migration of young neurons
  • Control the chemical environment
  • Participate in information processing in the brain
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Astrocytes

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Name the cell

-Lining of the ventricles of the brain and central canal of the spinal cord
-Choroid plexus (blood
venules surrounded by
ependymal cells) in ventricles
secretes cerebrospinal fluid
-Cilia assist in the movement
of the fluid

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Ependymal Cells

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Name the cell:

  • Range in shape from squamous to columnar
  • May be ciliated
  • Line the central cavities of the brain and spinal column
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Ependymal Cells

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Name the cell:

-Macrophages that respond
to infection in the CNS
-Phagocytize microorganisms and neuronal debris

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Microglia

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Name the cell:

–Provide the myelin sheath
for neurons in the CNS

-Insulates axons in the CNS

-Helps propagate action
potentials in the CNS.

-One Oligodendrocyte can
myelinate multiple axons

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Oligodendrocytes

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Name the cell:

-Surround neuron cell bodies in the PNS

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Satellite Cells

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Name the cell:

  • Surround peripheral nerve fibers and form myelin sheaths
  • Vital to regeneration of damaged peripheral nerve fibers
  • AKA Neurolemmocytes
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Schwann Cells

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Name the cell:
-Provide the myelin sheath
 for neurons in the PNS
-Insulates axons in PNS
-Helps propagate action
potentials in PNS
-One Schwann Cell will 
myelinate one axon
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Schwann Cells

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Name the cell:
-Support and nutrition for
sensory neuron cell bodies
-Found in PNS

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Satellite Cells

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What part of the neuron is this? - Short, tapering, and diffusely branched - Receptive (input) region of a neuron - Convey electrical signals toward the cell body as graded potentials
Dendrites
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What part of the neuron is this? - One axon per cell arising from the axon hillock - Numerous terminal branches (telodendria) - Knoblike axon terminals (synaptic knobs or boutons) - Releases Neurotransmitters
The Axon
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What is the function of an Axon?
Generates and transmits nerve impulses (action potentials) away from the cell body
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Name this Axon function: | -toward axonal terminal Examples: mitochondria, membrane components, enzymes
Anterograde
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Name this axon function: | -toward the cell body Examples: organelles to be degraded, signal molecules, viruses, and bacterial toxins
Retrograde
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What part of the Neuron is this? -Segmented protein-lipoid sheath around most long or large-diameter axons
Myelin Sheath
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What part of the neuron is this? It functions to: - Protect and electrically insulate the axon - Increase speed of nerve impulse transmission
Myelin Sheath
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(Myelin Sheaths in the PNS) -What cells wraps many times around the axon ?
Schwann Cells
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(Myelin Sheaths in the PNS) -________ is a peripheral bulge of Schwann cell cytoplasm.
Neurilemma
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Name the Myelin sheath in the PNS that gaps between adjacent Schwann cells?
Nodes of Ranvier
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T or F? | -Thin nerve fibers are unmyelinated
True
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(Myelin Sheaths in the CNS) T or F? -Are Formed by processes of oligodendrocytes, not the whole cells.
True
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(Myelin Sheaths in the CNS) T or F? Are Nodes of the Ranvier present?
True
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Is this white or gray matter? -Dense collections of myelinated fibers
White Matter
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Is this white or gray matter? -Mostly neuron cell bodies and unmyelinated fibers
Gray Matter
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What Types of Neurons is this? -Many dendrites with a single axon (most motor neurons)
Multipolar Neurons
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What Types of Neurons is this? -One dendrite and one axon (eye retina and nasal cavity)
Bipolar Neurons
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What Types of Neurons is this? -Single process extending from the cell body (Dorsal root ganglia transmit sensory information from the periphery)
Pseudo-unipolar Neurons
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What type of process is this? -more distal branch, often associated with a sensory receptor
Peripheral process
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What type of process is this? -branch entering the CNS
Central Process
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Respond to adequate stimulus by generating an action potential (nerve impulse), this is the function of a ?
Neuron
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What are the Two main types of ion channels?
1. Leakage (nongated) channels | 2. Gated Channels
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T or F? -Are Leakage (nongated) channels —always open?
True
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Name the type of gated channel: -(ligand-gated) channels—open with binding of a specific neurotransmitter
Chemically gated
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Name the type of gated channel: -open and close in response to changes in membrane potential
Voltage-gated Channels
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Name the type of gated channel: -open and close in response to physical deformation of receptors
Mechanically gated Channels

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