Random Final Material

Question 1

% of Decussations in

1) Dogs
2) Cats
3) Horse, Ruminant, Swine

Answer 1

1) 70-80%
2) 65%
3) 80-90%

Question 2

When does the menace response develop in

1) dogs and cats
2) horses and cattle

Answer 2

1) 10-12 weeks

2) 1-2 weeks

Question 3

Stages of a seizure? Best time to do neural exam?

Answer 3

1) Prodrome
2) Aura
3) Ictus
4) Postictus
5) Interictal Period (best time to examine)

Question 4

Classify seizure:

1) unknown cause
2) Trauma, inflammatory, neoplasia, vacular
3) toxins or metabolic

Answer 4

1) idiopathic
2) intracranial
3) extracranial

Question 5

3 pathophysiological causes of seizures?

Answer 5

1) enhaced excitatory synaptic activity
2) decreased inhibitory synaptic activity
3) paroxsymal depolarization shift

Question 6

Primary NTs

1) Excitatory
2) Inhibitory

Answer 6

1) Glutamate

2) GABA

Question 7

Name non-NMDA receptor. What does it do?

Answer 7

AMPA; binds glutamate to allow Na in an cause slight depolarization

Question 8

How does NMDA receptor become activated?

Answer 8

Removal of Mg

Question 9

Potential medication for seizures caused by glutamate system?

Answer 9

NMDA antagonists

Question 10

What type of receptor is the GABA receptor?

Answer 10

Ligand-gated Cl ion channel

Question 11

How can you quiet down spreading from PDS?

Answer 11

Prolong Na channel inactivation

Question 12

Neuron name if it releases:

1) ACh
2) NE

Answer 12

1) cholinergic

2) adrenergic