Study guide Exam 2 Flashcards
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What is the PNS system?
- It is nerves and ganglia (everything besides the spinal cord and brain)
- Sensory and motor divisions (then it is divided into visceral and somatic sensory divisions)
What is the CNS system?*
- It is the brain and spinal cord
- It is protected by the cranium and vertebral column
What is the sensory division?
sends the sensory signal to the brain and the spinal cord CNS
What is the visceral sensory division?
Carries signals mainly from the thoracic and abdominal cavity
What is the somatic sensory division?
Carries signals from receptors in skin, muscle, bones and joints to the CNS
What is the motor division?
carries signals from CNS to the effectors
What is the somatic motor division?
- Carries signals to the skeletal muscles
- The voluntary and involuntary contractions are called somatic reflexes
What is the visceral motor division? (also known as the ANS)
- Carries signals to glands, cardiac muscle and smooth muscle
- No voluntary control they are called visceral reflexes
What is the sympathetic divsion?
Tends to arouse the body for action
What is the parasympathetic division?
Adapts the body for energy intake and conservation
What is the Oligodendrocytes glial cell in the CNS?*
- It makes myelin in CNS
- Forms myelin in brain and spinal cord
What is the Ependymal glial cell in the CNS?*
They line the internal cavities of the brain and spinal cords. Similar to cuboidal epithelium
What is the Microglia glial cell in the CNS?*
They are basically white cells that go through the CNS looking for debris or other problems and get rid of those problems
What is the Astrocytes glial cell in the CNS?*
- Most abundant cell in the CNS
- They provide support and nourishment for neurons
What happens to the glial cells in the CNS when someone has multiple sclerosis?*
This happens because the oligodendrocytes and myelin sheath of the CNS system turn into hardened scar tissue. And the nerve conduction is disrupted.
What is the Satellite cells glial cell in the PNS?
- Provide support and nourishment
- They surround somas of neurons in the ganglia
What is the Schwann cells or neurolemmocytes glial cell in the PNS?
- Forms a sheath around the nerve fibers of the PNS
- They assist in conduction in PNS cells and regeneration of damaged nerve fibers
- and they make myelin in the PNS
What are the two things needed for nerve regeneration?
Endoneurium and neurilemma
What are endoneurium and neurilemma?
- Endoneurium
- This is a thin sleeve of connective tissue around a Schwann cell
2. Neurilemma
- Secretes nerve growth factors that stimulate regrowth of the axon
- This is a thin sleeve of connective tissue around a Schwann cell
Explain how nerve regeneration works in the PNS*
The Schwann cells and endoneurium together form a regeneration tube that guides the growing axon.
What are chemical synapses?*
It is a junction at which the presynaptic neuron releases a neurotransmitter to stimulate the postsynaptic cell and it moves in one direction
What are electrical synapses?*
- This has no neurotransmitter
- It is joined by gap junctions
- It is a quick transmission
- There is no integration of decision making
What is the cerebrum? (describe it)
- Consists of a right and left cerebral hemispheres
- Gyri folds and separate by sulci shallow grooves
- Longitudinal fissure (big sulcus between hemispheres, it separates them)
What is the cerebellum? (describe it)
- Lies inferior to the cerebrum in the posterior cranial and is separated by the transverse cerebral fissure
- This is the second largest region of the brain
- Contains over 50% of its neurons