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Physiology 1-7

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Local potentials a slight shift away from RMP in a specific region
Stimulus gated channels/Ligand gated channels ion channels that open in response to chemicals produced by a sensory stimulus/chemical stimulus received from another neuron
Sodium potassium pump active transport pumps 3 sodium out of the neuron and 2 potassium into the neuron
Why does the sodium potassium pump transport ions at an unequal rate of 3:2 very little sodium reenters the cell via diffusion so this maintains an imbalance in the distribution of ions and maintains the resting potential
Nodes of Ranvier gaps in the myelin sheath
3 structures that make up a chemical synapse a synaptic knob, a synaptic cleft, the plasma membrane of a postsynaptic neuron
Acetylcholine (ACh) has an excitatory effect in skeletal muscles. inhibitory effect at neurouscular junctions of cardiac muscle tissue
GABA gamma-aminobutyric acid, the most common inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain
somatic nervous system regulates the somatic effectors (skeletal muscles)
autonomic nervous system efferent pathways carry information to autonomic effectors mainly smooth muscles, cardiac muscles, glands
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