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| What is the site of functional contact between neurons, where one neuron is excited or inhibited by another area? |
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| Who coined the term Synapse? |
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| Where is the point of communication between neuron and neuron; neuron and muscle? |
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| What is an electrical synapse used for? |
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| rapid, non-changing depolarization in the brain |
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What occurs at a chemical synapse? |
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| vesicles that contain NTs in the presynaptic axon terminal are released into the synaptic cleft between neurons then, exocytosis occurs to the postsynaptic receptor. |
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| What is another name for electronic transmission? |
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| electrical synaptic transmission |
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| What is electrical synaptic transmission? Where is it found? |
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| direct, passive flow of current from one neuron to another; found in all types of nervous systems (although relatively uncommon) |
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What did Furshpan and Potter discover in 1959 at the giant motor synapse? |
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| crayfish abdomical nerve cord |
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| What does the the crayfish abdomical nerve cord mediate? |
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| It mediates the escape tail flip of the crayfish allowing it to escape from predators. |
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| What leads to direct depolarization/an AP in the crayfish abdominal nerve cord? |
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| AP in the pre-synaptic cell leads to direct depolarization in post-synaptic cell that also leads to an AP. |
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| Where is there no discernible synaptic delay? |
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| the crayfish abdominal nerve cord. |
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| What does chemical transmission involve in the crayfish abdominal nerve cord? |
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| Chemical transmission involves several biochemical steps that take a finite amount of time, if small. |
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| What type of synapse is almost symmetrical and has no considerable synaptic delay? |
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| What type of synapse is asymmetrical and has a 1/2 second delay? |
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