Exercise 3 Neurophysiology of Nerve Impulses Eliciting (Generating) a Nerve Impulse 1. Why don’t the terms depolarization and action potential mean the same thing? They require different things. Action potential requires depolarization and repolarization. Depolarization doesn’t require anything. 2. What was the threshold voltage in Activity 1? 3.0V 3. What was the effect of increasing the voltage? How does this change correlate to changes in the nerve? The action potential increases
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maximal voltage here: 6.0 V Activity 2: Mechanical Stimulation 1. When the glass rod is touching the nerve‚ what do you see on the oscilloscope screen? The nerve’s action potential to stimuli 2. How does this tracing compare with the other tracings you have generated? They are traced in the same fashion Activity 3: Thermal Stimulation 1. What happens when the heated rod touches the nerve? Action potential in increased 2. How does this trace compare to the trace that was generated with the
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Exercise 3: Neurophysiology of Nerve Impulses Worksheet Assignment Due: Week 4 Student instructions: Follow the step-by-step instructions for this exercise found in your text and record your answers in the spaces below. Submit this completed document by the assignment due date found in the Syllabus. Please make sure that your answers are typed in RED. Please type your Name and Student ID Number here: Charles Coon 4048223 Eliciting a Nerve Impulse Activity 1: Electrical Stimulation
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Exercise 3: Neurophysiology of Nerve Impulses Worksheet Assignment Due: Week 4 Student instructions: Follow the step-by-step instructions for this exercise found in your text and record your answers in the spaces below. Submit this completed document by the assignment due date found in the Syllabus. Eliciting a Nerve Impulse Activity 1: Electrical Stimulation 1. Do you see any kind of response on the oscilloscope screen? Just a flat line. 2. What was the threshold voltage
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In order for a muscle to contract requires a nerve impulse to arrive at the neurotransmitter junction. This then causes a release of acetylcholine (ACh) from the presynaptic terminal. By binding with its receptors on the membrane of the muscle fiber‚ which opens sodium channels generating an action potential that spreads through the length of the fiber‚ stimulating release of calcium from the sarcoplasmic reticulum. Calcium is what activates the contractile mechanism‚ causing the muscle fiber to
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(Generating) a Nerve Impulse 1. Why don’t the terms depolarization and action potential mean the same thing? Depolarization has to do with surfaces becoming more negative or positive and reaches a certain point called a threshold. When the threshold is reached‚ an action potential is initiated. 2. What was the threshold voltage in Activity 1? The threshold voltage in Activity 1 was 3.0. 3. What was the effect of increasing the voltage? How does this change correlate to changes in the nerve? There
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Exercise 3: Neurophysiology of Nerve Impulses Worksheet Eliciting a Nerve Impulse Activity 1: Electrical Stimulation 1. Do you see any kind of response on the oscilloscope screen? No there was no response‚ the line was flat 2. What was the threshold voltage‚ or the voltage at which you first saw an action potential? 3.0V 3. How does this tracing compare to the one that was generated at the threshold voltage? At 3.5V the high & low peaks were just slightly above and below respectively
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neurons Back ligand gates mechanical gates Front this conduction type is faster and more energy efficient and involves myelinated neurons Back saltatory Front this is the name for a bundle of axons in the PNS Back nerve Page 5
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secretes several hormones and is very closely related to the activity of the endocrine system. * The hormones it secretes are: * Releasing hormones – stimulate the secretion of specific anterior pituitary hormones * Release inhibiting hormones – inhibit the secretion of specific anterior pituitary hormones Pituitary * A small pea-sized gland also called the hypophysis. * Located at the base of the brain * Lies in the sella turcica (saddle-like depression of the
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part of a neuron that conducts impulses away from its cell body is called a(n) _______________. a) axon b) dendrite c) neurolemma d) Schwann cell 3. Which ion channel opens in response to a change in membrane potential and participates in the generation and conduction of action potentials? a) mechanically gated channel b) voltage-gated channel c) leakage channel d) ligand-gated channel 4. An impulse from one nerve cell is communicated to another nerve cell via the __________. a)
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