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What are the three main components of the nervous system?

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  1. CNS: inside vertebrae and cranial bones
  2. PNS: outside the skull and spine— directly connected to the CNS
  3. ENS: associated with the digestive tract— indirectly connected to the CNS
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What are the two classes of cells that nervous tissue consists of? What are their function?

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Neurons: transmit information
Neuralgia: which play supporting roles— protect and maintain neurons

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What are the three functional classifications fo neurons?

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  1. Sensory neurons
  2. Interneurons
  3. Motor/effector neurons
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What do sensory neurons do?

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Take information from the environment or non-neurons and transmit it to neurons

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What do interneurons do?

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Receive and transmit signals between other neurons

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What do Motor/effector neurons do?

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Receive information from other neurons and transmit it to non-neuronal cells (i.e.muscles)

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What are the four types of glial cells in the nervous system?

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  • ependymal cells
  • microfilm
  • myelinating cells
  • Astrocytes and satellite cells
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What are ependymal cells? What is their function?

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  • Simple cuboidal epithelium that lines cavities in the CNS called ventricles
  • secrete CSF
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What are Microglia? What is their function?

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Descendants of WBC’s, perform immune functions and also help modify connection between neurons

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What are Schwann cells (PNS)/Oligodendrocytes (CNS)?

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Wrap around axons and produce a myelin sheath (electrical insulation)

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What are satellite cells (PNS) and astrocytes (CNS)?

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  • Cells that provide physiological support for neurons, helping maintain their extracellular environment
  • attach to dendrites
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Can axons in the PNS regrow?

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Yes

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Can axons in the CNS regrow?

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No— glia prevent the axon from regrowing through physical and chemical barriers

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What is the advantage that the CNS could get by not allowing new neurons to grow?

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— neurons are very specialized and need specific chemicals to regrow

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How are Na+ and K+ gradients maintained?

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Primary active transport, Na-K-ATPase pump

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How is the Cl- gradient is maintained?

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Secondary active transport (co-transport with K+)

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What do leak channels do?

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  • allow for ionic permeability at rest

- always open, even at rest

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What allows ions to move through ion channels

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their electrochemical gradient

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What chemical has the most leak channels?

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What is the equilibrium potential?

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A transmembrane potential where electrical forces are exactly the right size to balance out the force from that ion’s concentration gradient

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What is the equilibrium potential for K+?

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What is the equilibrium potential for Na+?

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What is the equilibrium potential for Cl-?

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What determines how much an ion will contribute to the potential?

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How permeable it is

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How can a membrane channel change?
Shifts according to which ions are most permeable at a given time
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A sensory neuron has an RMP of -70mV, and a myofibre at rest has an RMP of -90mV. What leak channels are present in each cell?
1. Sensory neuron: Cl- | 2. Myofibre neuron: K+
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If a stimulus from the environment triggers the sensory neuron to open ion channels in its dendrites that are equally permeable to both Na+ and K+, what will happen to the membrane potential?
It will stay at about -70mV
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What are the three kinds of gated ion channels?
1. Voltage 2. Ligand 3. Mechanical
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Where are ligand and voltage gated channels found in a neuron? What kind of potential do they produce?
- ligand gated Na+ channel on dendrites— graded potential - voltage gated Na+ and K+ channels on the axon - voltage gated Ca2+ channels at the axon terminals
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What is a (post)synaptic potential?
A change in membrane potential that comes from the neurotransmitter released by another neuron
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What an example of hyperpolarization?
An NT opens ion channels that are only permeable to K+
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What affects the size of a graded potential?
- how many open channels there are | - the concentration of neurotransmitter released
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Why is there only a small change in the membrane potential when ligand gated Cl- channels open?
The equilibrium channel of Cl is very close to the the RMP
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What do mechanically gated ion channels do?
- produce a graded potential called a receptor potential
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How are graded potentials generated?
- different ion channels | - generated locally by the stimulation that triggers the channel to open
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Where is the threshold potential?
-55mV
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How many gates do voltage gated sodium channels have?
2: 1) activation gate: opens rapidly in response to the depolarization 2) inactivation gate: starts open, then closes (and stays closed until the membrane gets back near to RMP or even more negative)
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When does a voltage gated K channel open? How quickly does it open?
Right when the neuron crosses threshold; very slowly (K starts moving out of the cell and repolarizing around the time that sodium channels are closing)
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Why does the potential go BELOW threshold when it is repolarizing?
- the K channels stay open for a short amount of time after repolarization - there are more voltage gated channels than leak channels so K keeps moving out of the cell
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What kind of feedback contributes to action potential?
Both positive and negative: - positive: sodium channels depolarize the membrane and make more channels open - negative: k channels repolarize/hyperpolarize and makes more channels close
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What is the AP absolute and relative refractory period?
Absolute: cannot get another action potential once the membrane reaches threshold Relative: Hyperpolarization causes a period of time where the cell is too polarizated to get to threshold
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Depolarization spreads both directions, but the AP is only generated distally— why?
The sodium inactivation gates are still closed
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What is myelin made out of?
Fat and protein
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What is a node? What do they do?
- The 1-2mm long section between internodes that has no myelin wrapping - section where VG channels and leak channels are
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Why is myelin insulating?
It prevents ions form escaping through leak channels and therefor enhances the spread of potentials
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What is conduction speed?
The time it takes an action potential to travel a given distance along an axon
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Why do myelinated axons use less ATP?
pumps use ATP, unmyelinated axons need more action potentials

BIOL 155 MIDTERM (8 decks)

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