What is neuro anyway
The part of the nervous system that includes the brain and the spinal cord
What is the central nervous system?
The equation used to calculate the equilibrium potential of an ion.
What is the Nernst equation?
The phase of the action potential when sodium channels open and sodium ions flow into the cell.
What is the rising phase?
Cocaine blocks dopamine reuptake, meaning it is an agonist/antagonist.
What is an agonist?
The phototransduction enzyme responsible for breaking down cGMP. This process occurs in the light/dark.
What is PDE (phosphodiesterase)?
What is the light?
A staining technique that stains the entirety of a neuron, but only stains 1 in every 500 neurons.
What is a golgi stain?
The current depends on the driving force and the _____.
What is conductance?
The type of EPSP summation that involves EPSPs applied simultaneously to different locations on the neuron.
What is spatial summation?
Name one acetylcholine antagonist.
What is botox/curare/alpha bungarotoxin/atropine?
The part of the eye where light is refracted and focused onto the retina.
What is the cornea?
The kind of glia that is involved in regulating the blood brain barrier.
What is an astrocyte?
The two main things that establish the imbalance of charges in a neuron at rest.
What are the sodium-potassium pump and K+ leak channels?
_____ propagation occurs in the dendrites and _____ propagation occurs in the axon.
What is passive and active?
The main excitatory NT of the nervous system.
What is glutamate?
In the dark, the off-center bipolar cell is depolarized/hyperpolarized.
What is depolarized?
Ion channels have ________, they only let some things into the cell.
What is selective permeability or ion selectivity?
The difference in electrical potential or stored energy between the inside and outside of the neuron at any moment.
What is the resting membrane potential?
The part of a metabotropic receptor that activates second messengers.
What is a G protein?
The immediate precursor of dopamine and a treatment for Parkinson's disease.
What is L-DOPA?
The right visual field is viewed by the nasal ____ retina and the temporal ____ retina.
What is right and left?
He believed that the nervous system was composed of distinct functional elements called neurons that made connections with each other via synapses
Who is Ramon y Cajal?
What animal has giant axons 1 mm in diameter and was used in Hodgkin and Huxley's study of the action potential?
What is the giant squid?
A toxin found in pufferfish that blocks Na+ channels.
What is TTX?
The venom that makes holes in axon terminals, causing Ca2+ influx in motor neurons. This venom is an agonist/antagonist.
What is black widow spider venom?
What is an agonist?
The type of opsin protein that allows negative chloride ions to pass in response to yellow light.
What is NpHR halorhodopsin?