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These notes have unit 1 stuff about the nerve cells and processes in the voltage gated channels in the cell membranes of neurons. Moreover it describes structure of neurons and has many diagrams of how neurotransmitters go around the nervous system, how drugs like paracetamol are transported.

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Potential Difference/Voltage.
Potential
·

difference defined the electric charge between electric
is or
potential difference
per
unit
,
two
points in an
field.

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·
is d ow n or




·
The
voltage/potential difference given the force to the electrons to flow through the circuit.




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·
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for the
development of complex and complete nervous system .



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only occur at the moder , so
they appear to
jump from one to the next.




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threshold value .




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carry
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for every 3 sodium ion,
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·
post synceptic neuron .

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of the membrane only :
Information passes across the
synaptic cleft from
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the presynaptic neuron to the
post-synaptic o 2
potassium ions are

neron in the form of chemicals called transported inside of the
neurotransmitters. diffusion
by which triggers membrane .

an action
potential in the
post-synaptic neuron .
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n
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of the electrical potential which from the process of the one
moving
in and out of the neuron cell membrane when the correct channels are
open in response
stimulus inside
to a , making the of the ver ron to be more
positive
than the outside.

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