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Nervous System 2. By: Conley Jacobs, Bahar Sheikhi, Madison Guiffre, and Ruston Keene. What is the nervous system?. The system that transmits signals between different parts of the body using neurotransmitters (5). Keywords.
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Nervous System 2 By: Conley Jacobs, Bahar Sheikhi, Madison Guiffre, and Ruston Keene
What is the nervous system? The system that transmits signals between different parts of the body using neurotransmitters (5).
Keywords Neurons: The nervous system’s cells. When it is the cell that delivers the information it is known as the presynaptic cell (3). Axons: Long projections of the neuron; electrical impulses travel through (3). Receptor Cells: The cell that receives information from the neurons, also known as the postsynaptic cell (3). Chemical Synapse: A narrow space between neurons and the receptor cells where neurons signal to each other and to the receptor cells; such as muscle cells (3).
Neurotransmitters Neurotransmitters: These are chemicals that give the information from the nervous system cells to other cells, whether they be neurons or not (7). • Diffuse across the chemical synapses (7). • Stored in synaptic vesicles in the presynaptic cell (7). • ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5zFgT4aofA
Movement of Neurotransmitters • An electric impulse (action potential) moves down the axon towards the chemical synapse. (4) • The electric impulse causes vesicles that contain neurotransmitters to move towards the axon’s membrane. (4) • The neurotransmitters that were within the vesicles are also released into the synapse with the help of calcium ions. (4) • The vesicles are released via exocytosis. (4) • The neurotransmitters diffuse throughout the synapse, where they remain until bound onto receptors found on the postsynaptic membrane (7). • This binding causes the opening of passageways for ions to diffuse through (7).
Examples of Neurotransmitters Examples: Acetylcholine (ACh) • Chemical Synapses between motor neuron and muscle cell • Binds to receptors on the membrane of the muscle cell (7). • Important to activate muscle movement (7). Serotonin • Inhibitory neurotransmitter • Found in the gut and brain; regulates movements in the intestine and contributes to happiness (6). • Works similarly to acetylcholine • Binds to receptors as well
Role of Calcium • Channels for calcium ions line the presynaptic cell’s membrane (7) • The arriving action potential causes electrical depolarization, that causes these channels to open, allowing a flow of calcium ions, greatly increasing the concentration inside the cell (7) • Calcium-sensitive proteins attached to vesicles containing the neurotransmitters then cause the vesicle to fuse with the membrane, releasing the neurotransmitters across the synaptic cleft.
Electrical to Chemical Signal • The electrical impulses from the neuron, in the form of action potential reaches the presynaptic terminal. • This electrical signal causes the release of Ca2+ into the presynaptic terminal. • The vesicles then release the neurotransmitters across the synaptic cleft to the postsynaptic channel receptors, as a chemical signal (8).
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