Structures of the Nervous System
This system controls involuntary functions, such as: heart rate, digestion, and respiration.
What is the autonomic nervous system?
These cells provide structure and support neurons.
What are glial cells?
The membrane of the neuron is composed of this structure.
What is a lipid bilayer?
This process causes the neuron to become more negative than resting membrane potential.
What is hyperpolarization?
These molecules activate or deactivate receptors by binding to them.
What are ligands?
A group of cell bodies in the periphreal nervous system.
What is a ganglion?
This area of the neuron is responsible for signal integration.
What is the soma?
This protein detects chemical signals from outside the cell to trigger changes inside the cell.
What is a receptor?
The period in which the cell membrane cannot generate an action potential.
What is the refractory period?
This neurotransmitter is considered the major inhibitory neurotransmitter.
What is GABA?
This structure splits the cerebrum into two hemispheres.
What is the corpus callosum?
This structure of the neuron converts electrical signals into chemical signals.
What is the axon terminal?
The ratio of ions in and out of the sodium-potassium pump.
What is 3 Na+ ions out for every 2 K+ ions in?
The region of the neuron that generates an action potiental.
What is the axon hillock?
This category receptors use g proteins to cause long-lasting changes in excitability.
This structure of the brain is responsible for producing dopamine.
What is the midbrain?
These glial cells mantain the blood brain barrier.
What are astrocytes?
This positively charged ion has more atoms outside the cell than inside the cell.
What is potassium (K+)?
These proteins are activated by Ca 2+ and lead to the fusion of synaptic vesicles.
What are SNARE and SNAP proteins?
Dopamine and acetylcholine are examples of this category of neurotransmitter?
What is an amine?
The five cranial nerve pathways solely associated with motor functions.
This type of neuron is usually found in sensory pathways.
What are bipolar neurons?
This formula calculates the total membrane potential of the neuron.
What is the Goldman-Hodgkin-Katz equation?
This term describes the "jump" of potentials from node to node.
What is saltatory conduction?
This molecule is considered an antagonist for acetylcholine's metabotropic receptor.
What is atropine?