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Neurobiology 2nd
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Biology
Undergraduate 3
04/17/2011

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afferent system: form and texture pereption
Definition
Merkel cell afferents
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afferent system: motion detection
Definition
Meissner cell afferents
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afferent system: vibration
Definition
Pacinian cell afferents
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afferent system: skin stretch
Definition
Ruffini cell afferents
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Biggest afferent: sensory function and name
Definition
proprioception Ia
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second biggest afferent: sensory function and name
Definition
Touch A(Beta)
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third biggest afferent: sensory function and name
Definition
pain/temp, A(delta)
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fourth biggest (smallest) afferent: sensory function and name
Definition
pain/temp/itch C
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dorsal root ganglia
Definition
The segmental sensory ganglia of the spinal cord; contain the first-order neurons of the dorsal column/medial lemniscus and spinothalamic pathways.
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nerve endings/corpuscles from skin to deepest
Definition
Meissner - Merkel - Ruffini - Pacinian
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two slowly adapting afferents
Definition
Ruffini & Merkel
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two rapidly adapting afferents
Definition
Pacinian and Meissner
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motor neurons thatsynapse to intrafusal muscle fibers
Definition
gamma motor neurons
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Receptors located in muscle tendons that provide mechanosensory information to the central nervous system about muscle tension
Definition
golgi tendon organs
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territory of the body innervated by each spinal nerve
Definition
dermatome
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ventral posterior complex
Definition
Group of thalamic nuclei that receives the somatic sensory projections from the dorsal column nuclei and the trigeminal nuclear complex
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location of first order neurons
Definition
dorsal root and cranial nerve ganglia
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location of second order neurons
Definition
brainstem nuclei
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location of third order neurons
Definition
thalamus
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nociceptors
Definition
Cutaneous and subcutaneous receptors (usually free nerve endings) specialized for the detection of harmful (noxious) stimuli.
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three types of nociceptors
Definition
A(delta) mechanosensitive, A(delta) mechanothermal, polymodal C
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lateral eye cells between photoreceptors and bipolar cells
Definition
horizontal cells
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lateral eye cells between bipolar and ganglion cells
Definition
amacrine cell
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five types of retinal cells
Definition
rods/cones - horizontal - bipolar - amacrine - ganglion
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rod/cone (hyper/de)polarizes with light
Definition
hyperpolarizes
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dark, depolarized. what two ions?
Definition
Na+ and Ca+
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dark, depolarized, Na and Ca flow in through ____ gated channels
Definition
cGMP
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___ - the ion that hyperpolarizes the cell
Definition
K+ leaving
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located in rod disk membrane it turns cGMP to GMP (hydrolyzes)
Definition
phosphodiesterase
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protein bound to GDP is rod/cone
Definition
transducin
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transducin, once activated by rhodopsin, exchanges ____ for _____
Definition
GDP for GTP
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this subunit of transducin activates the phosphodiesterase
Definition
alpha
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phosphodiesterase turns ___ to ____
Definition
cGMP hydrolyzed to GMP
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phosphorylates rhodopsin for arrestin to bind to it
Definition
rhodopsin kinase
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binds to phosphorylated rhosopsin prevent it from activating transducin
Definition
arrestin
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restore cGMP levels
Definition
guanylate cyclase
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restoration of 11 cis retinal
Definition
retinoid cycle
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light adaptation: lotsa light - less Ca coming in. means increased activity of _____ and ______
Definition
rhodopsin kinase and guanylate cyclase
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rod mediated vision
Definition
scotopic
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cone mediated vision
Definition
photopic
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rod and cone mediated vision
Definition
mesopic
Term
photoreceptor at fovea
Definition
cones
Term
recycles retinal
Definition
IRBP
Term
loss of long wavelength vision
Definition
protanopia
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loss of medium wavelength color vision
Definition
deuteranopia
Term
help coordinate rapid movement of the eye towards a target
Definition
superior colliculus
Term
control circadian rhythms
Definition
suprachiasmatic nucleus
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controls dilation
Definition
pretectum
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pupillary light reflex: pretectum synapses to __________
Definition
edinger - westphal nucleus to ciliary ganglion
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two ways Ca+ can build synapses
Definition
cytoskeleton in dentrites, BDNF in soma - growth of synapses
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three scalas of the cochlea. top to bottom
Definition
scala vestibuli, scala media, scala tympani
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cochlea fluid in scala tympani
Definition
perilymph
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actual hairs on hair cells
Definition
stereocilia
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connections between stereocilia
Definition
tip links
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tallest stereocilium
Definition
kinocilium
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depolarizing ion at stretched tip links
Definition
K+
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cochlea fluid in scala media
Definition
endolymph
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how many rows of each hair cell?
Definition
one inner, three outer
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sctual sensory receptors. which hairs cells?
Definition
inner
Term
2 organ of corti membranes
Definition
tectoral basilar
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three types of papillae
Definition
fungiform, circumvallate foliate
Term
bitter taste g protein couple receptor
Definition
gustducin
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