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Lecture 8 & 9: Neurons of The Nervous System and Electrical Activity Flashcards

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What two parts are the nervous system divided into

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Central Nervous System (CNS)

Peripheral nervous system (PNS)

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What does the CNS contain

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Brain

Spinal Cord

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What does the PNS contain

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sensory (afferent) neurons

Efferent neurons

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Describe the sensory / response procedure

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PNS detects stimuli
CNS integrates information
CNS determines a response
CNS sends output signals through PNS

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Afferent or sensory neurons transmit sensory information where

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CNS

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What are efferent neurons also referred to as

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motor neurons

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What does the Somatic Motor division control

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Skeletal muscles

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What does the Autonomic division control

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Smooth and cardiac muscles, exocrine glands, endocrine glands

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What system is the autonomic division found in and what is another name for it

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the PNS

Visceral nervous system

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Autonomic neurons are further divided into _____ and _____ branches

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Sympathetic and parasympathetic branches

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Define Sympathetic neurons

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Division of the Autonomic nervous system that is responsible for the fight or flight response

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Define Parasympathetic neurons

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Divisions of the autonomic nervous system that is responsible for day to day activities

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What division of the PNS is the autonomic neurons located

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Efferent division

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Neurons are specialized to carry what and do what with other cells

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Electrical signals and communicate

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Neurons secrete what

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neurotransmitters

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The dendrites of a neuron does what

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receive incoming info from neighbouring neurons

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Neurons are more complex in what nervous system

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CNS

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What part of the neuron contains the DNA for protein synthesis

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Cell body

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in a neuron where is an AP fired

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Axon hillock

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Are the nodes of Ranvier always present?

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No, only if myelin is

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What type of signals can cross a synaptic cleft

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Where are electrical signals converted into chemical signals and due to what

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synaptic terminal and due to influx of Ca2+

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What is a distinctive feature of sensory neurons

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have longer axons/dendrites to cover longer distances

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Describe a pseudopunipolar and bipolar sensory neurons

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Pseudo = axon fused to dendrite
Bipolar = dendrites and an axon
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What type of neurons have the most dendrite branches?
Interneurons
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Define an Anaxonic neuron
Doesn't have an axon
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Give A distinctive feature of motor neurons
have long axons and multiple dendrites
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What do Glial Cells do and do they outnumber neurons?
provide support for neurons, outnumber neurons by 10-50 to 1
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What are the 6 types of Glia cells and where are they located
``` Oligodendrocytes (CNS) Ependymal cells (CNS) Microglia (CNS) Astrocytes (CNS) Satellite cells (PNS) Schwann cells (PNS) ```
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What is microglia role in the CNS
The immune cells
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What do astrocytes make up
the Blood Brain Barrier
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How many axons can one Schwann cell myelinate
one axon
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Neurons have a ____ density of ion channels
high
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The activation of ion channels =
the rapid change in membrane potential
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Ion channels are based off
1) ions they let in 2) Where they are located 3) The Gating mechanisms
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The 5 types of gating mechanisms are
1) Voltage gated 2) Receptor channels (Ligand-gated channels) 3) Phosphorylation gated 4) Stretch gated 5) Temperature gated
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What are the two types of electrical signaling?
1) Graded potentials | 2) Action potentials
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Describe the 7 guidelines of graded potential
1) Signals that are communicated from one neuron to the next 2) Causes small subthreshold changed in membrane potential 3) Can be depolarizing or hyperpolarizing 4) Slow moving 5) Proportional to the size of the stimulus (can be summed 6) Gradually dissipates as it travels through a cell "like a ripple on a pond" 7) Signal degrades because of electrical resistance in the cytoplam
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What are 6 guidelines about action potentials
1) Wave of depolarization 2) All OR NOTHING 3) Always depolarizing 4) Fast, large, amplitude 5) Requires threshold to be met 6) Can not be summed
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The 9 steps to the ionic basis of action potential are
1) RMP 2) Cell is depolarized by graded potential 3) Membrane depolarizes causing Voltage-gated Na+ channels to open quickly allowing Na+ into the cell and causing Voltage-gated K+ channels to begin to slowly open 4) Rapid Na+ into the cell depolarizes the cell 5) Na+ Channels inactivate and slower K+ channels fully open 6) K+ leaves the cell 7) K+ Channels remain open and additional K+ leaves the cell causing hyperpolarization 8) Voltage-gated K+ channels close, less K+ leaks out of the cell. NA+ channels begin to recover 9) Cell returns to resting ion permeability and RMP
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What three states are the basis of voltage gated NA+ channels regarding action potential
a) Activated b) Inactivated c) Closed
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The 5 Phases of Action potential are
1) Supra threshold EPSP (Excitatory postsynaptic potential) is met 2) Rising Phase; a) Voltage gated K+ channels begin slowly opening b) Voltage gated Na+ channels open upon reaching threshold allowing Na+ to enter, thus depolarizing 3) Falling Phase: Peak met causing Na+ channels to close and K+ channels to all open causing K+ to move out thus repolarizing the cell 4) Recovery Phase: The slow K+ channels remain open even after reducing the RMP, L+ keeps leaving causing hyperpolarization 5) Cell returns to RMP
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What are the two types of refractory period and describe each
Absolute refractory period: Can not trigger AP | Relative Refractory Period: Can trigger AP but requires a stronger stimulus
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What are the 3 patterns of action potential
a) Single b) Tonic (Constant and uniform) c) Bursting (crazy shit then break)
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Describe the 2 influences of Extracellular K+
Hyperkalemia: Increased extracellular K+ concentration = RMP closer to threshold Hypokalemia: Decreased extracellular K+ concentration = RMP more negative resulting in a strong stimulus needed to meet threshold
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Compare myelinated axons to unmyelinated axons
Myelinated: much faster, only permeable @nodes of Ranvier Unmyelinated: Slower, Strength of EPIP dissipated by time it reaches hillock
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what are the two ways to speed up the velocity of action potentials along an axon
1) Myelination | 2) Axon Diameter
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Describe the relationship between axon diameter and velocity
Increases velocity as the axon radius becomes larger | Inverse square relationship

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