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Nervous System

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What 2 categories is the nervous system divided into?   Central nervous system and peripheral nervous system  
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What are the 2 kinds of cells that are found in the nervous system?   Neurons and supporting/glial cells  
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What are the 2 types of transport systems in long axons?   Axoplasmic flow and Axonal transport  
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What is the molecular motor of the anterograde transport?   Kinesin  
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What is the molecular motor of the retrograde transport system of the axon?   Dynein  
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Does the anterograde transport move materials towards or away from the cell body?   Away  
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Does the retrograde transport move materials towards or away from the cell body?   Towards  
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What type of special transport system rapidly moves large and insoluble compounds bidirectionally along microtubles?   Axonal transport  
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What type of special transport system moves soluble compounds toward nerve endings via rhythmic contractions of the axon?   Axonplasmic flow  
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What do you call a group of cell bodies in the CNS?   Nuclei  
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What do you call a group of cell bodies in the PNS?   Ganglia  
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What is the functional classification of neurons that conduct impulses toward the CNS?   Sensory/Afferent  
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What is the functional classification of neurons that carry impulses out of the CNS?   Motor/Efferent  
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What is the functional classification of neurons that integrate the NS activity and is located entirely inside the CNS?   Association/Interneurons  
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What is the 3 structural classification of neurons?   Pseudounipolar, Bipolar, and Multipolar  
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What type of neurons cell body sits along side of a single process as in a sensory neuron?   Pseudounipolar  
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What type of neurons does the dendrite and axon arise from opposite ends of the cell body as in retinal neurons?   Bipolar  
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What type of neuron has many dendrites and one axon as in motor neurons?   Multipolar  
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What are the 2 types of supporting (glial)cells in the PNS?   Schwann and satellite (ganglionic gliocytes) cells  
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What are the 4 types of supporting (glial) cell in the CNS?   Oligodendrocytes, microglia, astrocytes, ependymal cells  
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In the PNS what type of cell myelinates the axon by wrapping round and round the axon?   Schwann  
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What type of supporting cell electrically insulates the axon?   Schwann  
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What are the uninsulated gaps between adjacent schwann cell called?   Node of Ranvier  
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What is the most common glial cell?   Astrocyte  
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What glial cell is involved in buffering K+ levels, recycling neurotransmitters, regulating adult neurogenesis, and releasing transmitters that regulate neuronal activity?   Astrocytes  
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What is located in the brain that allows only certain compounds to enter the brain and is formed by capillary specializations that appear to be induced by astrocytes?   Blood brain barrier  
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At rest (RMP), all cells have a (negative/positive) internal charge and an (equal/unequal) distribution of ions.   Negative/unequal  
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What channels are always open?   K+ leakage channels are always open  
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What channels have a molecular gate that can be opened by depolarization?   Voltage-gated (VG) channels  
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What are the 2 types of K+ channels?   Leakage channels that are always open and gated channel that are closed during RMP  
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Between Na+ and K+, the inside of the cell has a higher concentration of which one?   K+  
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Does the outside of the cell have a higher concentration of Na+ or K+?   Na+  
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A wave of MP change that sweeps along the axon from the soma to the synapse is called what?   Action Potential (AP)  
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Action Potential causes a wave to form by rapid depolarization of the membrane by _____ influx; followed by rapid repolarization by _____ efflux.   Na+/K+  
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Where does AP occur in a myelinated axon?   Nodes of Ranvier  
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Where are Na+ channels located in a myelinated axon?   Only at the nodes  
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A functional connection between a neuron and another cell is called what?   Synapse  
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What are the 2 types of synaptic neurons?   Chemical and electrical  
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What type of synapse is it when depolarization flows from presynaptic into postsynaptic cell through channels called gap junctions?   Electrical synapse  
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What type of synapse is one-way and occurs through the release of chemical neurotransmitters from presynaptic axon endings?   Chemical synapse  
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The gap junctions in an electrical synapse are formed by proteins called what?   Connexin  
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In a chemical synapse, once the APs travel down the axon to depolarize the bouton what VG channels open?   Ca++  
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How is Ca++ driven into the bouton?   Electrochemical gradient  
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Once Ca++ is driven into the bouton what is triggered?   Exocytosis of the vesicles and release of the NTs  
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What stimulates the fusion of exocytosis and the release of the NTs?   Ca++/protein complex  
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What type of regulated channels open in response to the binding of postsynaptic receptor proteins to the NT ligands?   Chemically regulated channels  
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What is the most widely used NT?   Acetylcholine  
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What NT are used in the brain and the autonomic nervous system?   Acetylcholine  
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Where is acetylcholinesterase which inactivates acetylcholine located?   In the cleft  
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Voltage-regulated channels open in response to what?   Depolarization  
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Voltage regulated channels are mainly found where?   In the axons  
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Chemically regulate channels are usually found where?   Post synaptic membrane  
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Where is the site where APs are normally initiated and which has many VG channels?   Axon Hillock  
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What is irreversibly fired when the MP reaches threshold because positive feedback opens more and more Na+ channels?   AP  
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What are the 3 types of monoamine NTs?   Serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine  
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What is serotonin derived from?   Tryptophan  
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What is norepinephrin and dopamine derived from?   tyrosine  
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After the release of monoamine NTs, most are inactivated by ______ ______ and breakdown by _____________ ________   Presynaptic reuptake/monoamine oxidase  
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What are the 2 NTs called catecholamines?   Norepinephrine and dopamine  
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What NT is involved in regulation of mood, behavior, appetite and cerbral circulation?   Serotonin  
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LSD is structurally similar to what NT?   Serotonin  
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What NTs are antidepressants?   SSRI (serotonin-specific reuptake inhibitors  
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What are 4 examples of drugs that are SSRIs?   Prozac, zoloft, paxil, luvox  
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What does the drugs paxil, prozac, luvox, and zoloft block?   Reuptake of serotonin  
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What are the 2 dopamine systems in the brain?   Nigrostriatal dopamine system and the mesolimbic dopamine system  
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Degeneration of what dopamine system in the brain causes Parkinson's disease?   Nigrostriatal dopamine system  
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What dopamine system in the brain is involved with behavior and emotional reward?   Mesolimbic dopamine system  
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Most addictions activate what dopamine system in the brain?   Mesolimbic  
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Overactivity of the mesolimbic dopamine system in the brain contributes to what condition?   Schizophrenia  
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The degeneration of the nigrostriatal dopamine system causes what disease?   Parkinson's  
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Norephinephrine is used in the PNS and CNS. In the PNS is NE a sympathetic or parasypathetic NT?   Sympathetic  
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Norephinephrine in the CNS affects general level of arousal. What drugs stimulates the NE pathways?   Amphetamines  
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