BRAINY ANIMAL TRIVIA
This ocean dwelling animal has the most photoreceptors of any other animal (12-16)
Mantis Shrimp
HPLC
High Pressure Liquid Chromatography
In Latin, "bridge"
Pons
Average duration of a single eye blink
0.1-0.4 sec
Chemical transmission of nerve impulses
Otto Loewi
Sir Henry Hallett Dale
How many neurons do C. elegans have?
302
NMDA
N-Methyl-D-Aspartate
In Latin, "tough or hard body"
Corpus Callosum
Size of a synaptic cleft
20-40 nm
Discovery of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain (place cells)- Name 1 of 3
John O'Keefe
Edvard I.Moser
May-Britt Moser
What cuddly marsupial is lissencephalic?
Koalas
VMAT
Vesicular monoamine transporter
In Latin "black substance"
substantia nigra
Action Potential speed in myelinated axon
50-100 m/sec
Discovery of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system (Name 1 of 2)
Linda B. Buck
Richard Axel
Macrophages from this strain of mouse are resistant to the effects of anthrax lethal toxin.
C57BL/6J
COMT
Catechol-O-methyltransferase
In Latin, "Striped"
striatum
Diameter of a synaptic vesicle
30-50 nm
Discovery of G-protein coupled receptors and their role in signal transduction (1 of 2)
Alfred G. Gilman
Martin Rodbell
This ocean dwelling animal eats its own brain in old age.
Sea Squirt
CNiFER
Cell-based neurotransmitter fluorescent engineered reporters.
via new latin from classical Latin "cushion"
Pulvinar
Number of dopamine molecules in a vesicle
He won it with Hodgkin and Huxley
Sir John Carew Eccles