Nerve impulses 2012
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The document discusses how nerve impulses work in the nervous system. It explains that neurons have two key properties: excitability, which is the ability to respond to stimuli by generating electrical signals called action potentials, and conductivity, which allows impulses to be transmitted from one part of the neuron to another. It then describes the process of an action potential, how they are propagated along neurons, and how they are transmitted across synapses between neurons through the release of neurotransmitters.
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The document summarizes how a nerve impulse is initiated and transmitted. At rest, sodium and potassium gates are closed, maintaining a -70mV potential. When stimulated, sodium gates open, allowing sodium to enter and depolarize the membrane to +30mV. Then potassium gates open, repolarizing the membrane back to -70mV. This rapid depolarization and repolarization generates an action potential that is transmitted along the axon to the synaptic knob. At the synapse, neurotransmitters are released into the cleft and can trigger a new action potential in the receiving neuron.
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An action potential occurs when a neuron reaches its membrane threshold. This causes sodium channels to open, allowing sodium ions to enter the neuron and depolarize the membrane. Then, potassium channels open, allowing potassium ions to exit the neuron and repolarize the membrane back to its resting potential. This process of depolarization and repolarization propagates as a self-sustaining wave along the neuron, conducting the nerve impulse. Myelinated neurons enhance conduction velocity through salutatory conduction, where the action potential jumps between nodes of Ranvier.
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An action potential occurs when a neuron fires, sending an electrical signal down its axon. It is triggered when the membrane potential reaches a threshold of around -55 mV due to sodium ions rushing into the cell. This depolarizes the neuron to 0 mV. Then, potassium ions exit the cell, repolarizing it back below the resting potential of -70 mV. The influx and efflux of ions is due to the specific opening and closing of sodium and potassium channels. This process results in a consistent action potential amplitude regardless of the strength of the stimulus, following the all-or-none principle.
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1. Neuron membrane maintains resting potential until threshold stimulus is received.
2. Sodium channels open, sodium ions diffuse in, depolarizing the membrane.
3. Potassium channels open, potassium ions diffuse out, repolarizing the membrane.
4. The resulting action potential propagates as a nerve impulse down the axon.
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A and P Polarization
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3. Synaptic transmission has properties like one-way conduction, synaptic delay, fatiguability, convergence and divergence, summation, and the ability to excite or inhibit the postsynaptic neuron. Reflexes involve a stimulus, receptor, afferent neuron, central processing, efferent neuron,
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- 1. Nerve Impulses (pg 6)
- 2. Nerve Impulses (pg 6) • All functions associated with the nervous system are based on two characteristics of neurons: excitability and conductivity
- 3. Nerve Impulses (pg 6) • All functions associated with the nervous system are based on two characteristics of neurons: excitability and conductivity • Excitability: Ability to respond to a stimulus. Neurons respond to stimuli by generating action potentials
- 4. Nerve Impulses (pg 6) • All functions associated with the nervous system are based on two characteristics of neurons: excitability and conductivity • Excitability: Ability to respond to a stimulus. Neurons respond to stimuli by generating action potentials • Conductivity: ability to transmit an impulse from one point to another
- 5. Generation of an Action Potential
- 6. Generation of an Action Potential 1. Resting: Neuron cell membrane is impermeable to Na+ and K+. High concentration of Na+ outside cell and K+ inside cell. Also lots of negative ions inside cell, so it has a negative charge (-70 mv)
- 7. 2. Depolarization: Stimulus causes Na+ channels in the membrane to open. Na+ rushes into the cell, driven by concentration gradient and the negative charge inside the cell. Results in depolarization (0 mv)
- 8. 3. Reverse polarization: So much Na+ rushes into the cell that the polarity of the membrane becomes reversed (positive on the inside, negative on the outside). +30 mv
- 9. 4. Repolarization: Na+ channels close, so no more Na+ gets into the cell. K+ channels open and K+ rushes out of the cell, driven by the concentration gradient. Cells becomes negative on the inside (-70 mv)
- 10. Conduction along a neuron • Once an action potential has been generated, it must be propagated along the length of the neuron
- 11. Conduction along a neuron • Once an action potential has been generated, it must be propagated along the length of the neuron • The reverse polarity at one point of the neuron acts as a stimulus to the next point on the neuron, causing it to go through an action potential
- 12. Conduction along a neuron • Once an action potential has been generated, it must be propagated along the length of the neuron • The reverse polarity at one point of the neuron acts as a stimulus to the next point on the neuron, causing it to go through an action potential • In unmyelinated axons this process is continuous, in myelinated fibers, the impulse jumps from node to node
- 13. Conduction across a Synapse • Synapse = Region of communication between two neurons
- 14. Conduction across a Synapse • Synapse = Region of communication between two neurons • Neurons are separated by a space called the synaptic cleft. When a nerve impulse reaches the end of an axon it causes neurotransmitter molecules to be released into the cleft. The neurotransmitters diffuse over to the other neuron, where they cause an action potential