STUDY MATERIAL WITH PHYSIOLOGY
APPLICATION QUESTIONS AND SCENARIOS
◉ ependymal cells
Answer: line ventricles
move CSF
circulate CSF in ventricle of brain and central canal of spinal cord
◉ oligodendrocytes
Answer: make up myelin sheath in CNS
◉ schwann cells
Answer: make up myelin sheath in PNS
◉ depolarization
Answer: Na+ channels open and Na+ moves inside cell
inside the cell becomes more positive
◉ repolarization
Answer: K+ moves out of cell
,goes back to normal state
inside cell becomes more negative
◉ ventral roots of spinal cord
Answer: motor neurons
multipolar
◉ dorsal roots of spinal cord
Answer: unipolar
sensory neurons
◉ Nerves of the PNS
Answer: 12 Cranial nerves
31 Spinal nerves
Afferent-nerve impulse toward CNS
Efferent-nerve impulse away from CNS
◉ function of CNS
Answer: integrate all cell impulses from body and send out
commands
◉ What does myelin sheath do?
, Answer: covers white matter
speeds up nerve impulses
NO myelin sheath in gray matter
◉ relative refractory
Answer: Na+ gate channel closes--Repolarization
◉ saltatory conduction
Answer: nerve impulse jumps from node-to-node in myelinated
nerve fiber
◉ action potential
Answer: ion distribution at rest in a membrane
K+ inside cell
Na+ outside cell
◉ absolute refractory period
Answer: neuron doesn't conduct any impulses
nothing happens-depoolarization
◉ cerebral lobe resp. for voluntary movement
Answer: frontal lobe