Nervous System

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Where does the efferent pathway carry impulses?
Away from the CNS
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What receptors send the signal of the feeling of fullness in the stomach?
Interoceptors
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How so sensory (ascending) pathways distribute information?
From peripheral receptors to processing centres in the brain
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Where do sensory neurones carry impulses to?
The CNS
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What part of the nervous system do the cranial and spinal nerves make up?
The peripheral nervous system
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Which division of the nervous system contains around 100 million neurones and controls reflexes in the digestive tract?
The enteric nervous system
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What are interneurones responsible for?
Analysing sensory imputes and coordinating motor outputs
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What portion of a neurone primarily receives the most information?
Dendrites
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What type of neurone only has one axon and one dendrite?
Bipolar neurones
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What are telodendria?
Fine extensions at the end of an axon
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What part of the neurone does most of the functions to keep it alive?
The cell body or the soma
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What is Wallerian degeneration?
The breakdown of an axon distal to the site of an injury
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What type of neuroglial cell takes part in production and circulation of cerebrospinal fluid?
Ependymal cells
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Which cells produce myelin for neurones in the CNS?
Oligodendrocytes
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What are schwann cells responsible for?
Myelinating axons of neurones in the peripheral nervous system
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Which CNS neuroglial cell engulfs debris, waste products and pathogens?
Microglia
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Which neuroglia cells help supply neurones with nutrients?
Astrocytes
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What do satellite cells do?
Surround neurone cell bodies in ganglia and regulate interstitial fluid around the neurone
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What type of potential would c cause the resting potential of a cell to become more negative?
An inhibitory postsynaptic potential
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What does it mean if a neurotransmitter has a 'direct effect' on a cell?
It has its effect on the receptors of the target cell membrane
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What is the name of the most excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain?
Glutamate
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