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| What is the axon? What is it made up of? |
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| a long extension between two neuron cell bodies; it is made up schwann cells |
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| the _____is the name for the space in between. |
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| At rest, ____is on the outside and _____is on the inside. |
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| Both sodium and potassium are ___but the inside is ____due to other factors. |
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| A ____moves down the axon. |
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| As an axon potential moves down the axon, what happens? |
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| proteins open up and sodium rushes in and potassium rushes out because they are following the concentration gradient |
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| How do sodium and potassium get back to the outside and inside respectively? |
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| the sodium and potassium pump switches sodium back to the outside and potassium to the inside |
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| What is located at the end of an axon? |
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| What happens when the action potential reaches the end? |
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| vessicles, which hold neurotransmitters are secreted into the synapse |
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| Where do the neurotransmitters go after they are secreted into the synapse? |
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| they are released from the vessicles, travel across the synapse, and bind to receptors on the next neuron |
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| The action potential is a _____. |
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