Communication Neurobiology - Graded and action potential

6 important questions on Communication Neurobiology - Graded and action potential

What are the 4 steps of a graded potential?

  1. Stimulus depolarizes the cell membrane
  2. Decrement: signal weakens by diffusion throughut cytoplasm and leakage through cell membrane
  3. Axon hillock; depolarisation threshold results in action potential

What are the 4 steps of the action potential?

  1. Resting state= all gated channels closed
  2. Depolerising phase= Na channels open
  3. Repolarizing phase= Na channels inactivating, K channels open
  4. Hyperpolarization= K channels remain open, Na channels resetting

What is a refractory period?

A short period after the action potential where there is am temporal inactivation of Na channels, this makes it impossible to generate action potentials during this period
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What is the difference between the two types of axons?

Unmyelinated axons have continupus conduction and depolarisation of neighbouring area and myelinated axons have saltatory conduction with the nodes of Ranvier

What are the two types of synapses?

  • Electrical synapse
  • Chemical Synapse

What are the 8 communication steps in the chemical synapse?

  1. Arrival action potential
  2. Opening Ca channel &influx Ca in presynaptic neuron
  3. Exocytosis neurotransmatter
  4. Binding neurotrasmitter to receptor postsynaptic neuron
  5. Reaction postsynaptic neuron
  6. Neurotransmitter is degraded or
  7. Taken up and/or
  8. Diffuses out of the synaptic cleft

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