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What is the pH of the skin that makes it inhospitable to most bacteria? |
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What are the mechanical barriers against infection? |
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tears, ciliary action, coughing, urination |
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What is your last line of defense? |
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What occurs once your first line of defense has been compromised? |
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Definition/Charcteristics of Inflammation |
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Occurs in the vascular tissue. Response is immediate, dynamic and non-specific. |
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3 purposes of inflammation |
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Eliminate the pathological insult, remove the damaged tissue, regenerate/repair teh damaged tissue |
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Cardinal signs and symptoms of inflammation |
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Rubor, tumor, calor, dolor, function laesa (ie reddness, swelling, heat, pain and function loss) |
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Types of chemical mediators |
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cell-derived, plasma-derived |
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Acute Inflammatory Response |
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Immediate nonspecific response to injury |
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Stimuli of Mast cell production |
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uv light, chemical/physical injury, complement, immune system |
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2 ways mast cells activate an inflammatory response |
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degranulation of stored material and synthesis of mediators in response to stimuli |
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Preformed mast cell materials |
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Histimine, Neutrophil chemotactic factor, and Eosinophil chemotactic factor |
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What are the 3 Histimine receptors? |
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H1- contracts smooth muscle H2- gastric acid secretion H3- associated with neural tissue |
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What does histimine increase in the mast cell? |
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What is histimine inhibited by? |
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an increase in cAMP (epinephrine) |
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Neutrophil Chemotactic Factor |
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attracts neutrophils for eventual phagocytocis-destroys pathogen |
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Eosinophil Chemotactic Factor |
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Attracts eosinophils to the site. Controls other mediators to limit inflammation through the release of enzymes, aryl sulfatase B and histaminase. |
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Enzyme contained in eosinophils, degrades leukotrienes |
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Enzyme in eosinophils, breaks down histimine |
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What does synthesized material originate from in a mast cell? |
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Arachidonic Acid, synthesis occurs via a Cox-1 or Cox-2 enzyme |
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Consituitive enzyme of a mast cell, plays a key role in gastric mucosal protection and renal hemodynamics. Contained mainly in platelets. |
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enzyme of a mast cell induced in fibroblasts, endothelial cells and macrophages by cytokines |
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Stimulates Cox-1 and Cox-2 |
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anti-inflammatory, inhibits the transcription of Cox-2 gene |
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Synthesized in uninjured endothelial walls of blood vessels. Acts as a thromboxane antagonist. Vasodilate and inhibit platelets. Bronchiodilate. |
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mainly from mast cells on DP receptors. Inhibits platelet aggregation. Causes Brachioconstriction via TP receptors. |
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PGE2-Stimulatory response |
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mainly from macrophages. Causes fever, bronchil constriction, vasodilation of arterioles, potentiates action of kinins on pain, and histimine and kinins on permeability |
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decreases lysosomal enzyme release, decreases histimine release (H2 receptors), decreases the macrophage activation and generation and secretion of some cytokines. |
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mainly from platelets, promote degranulation and aggregation of platelets, causes vasoconstriction |
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Similar to histimine but lasts longer, enhances airway responss to brachioconstrictors, stimulates cytokine release |
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Platelet Activating Factor |
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Phospholipid release form other inflammatory cells and vascular endothelial cells, PMN, eosinophils, platelets and mast cells. Recruits eosinophils into bronchiol mucosa. Activates platelets. Inhibited by glucocorticoids. |
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What do platelets mainly produce? |
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What do Vascular endothelium usually produce? |
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What do macrophages usually produce? |
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What do mast cells normally produce? |
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Peptide cell regulators. Synthesized (de novo). Act locally. Act on specific high affinity receptors. |
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Biochemical messengers sent from one leukocyte to another. Induce response of immune cells to antigen. |
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What acts on vascular endothelial cells to stimulate Nitrous Oxide? |
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Inducible cytokines synthesized in response to viral stimuli. Do NOT effect infected cell. |
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What are host specific but not virus specific? |
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Transforming Growth Factor |
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Widest acting cytokine. Increases interleukin production. Works in later stages to reconstruct damages tissue. |
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Incrases cytokine production and phagocyte activity. Induces prostacylin synthesis in endothelial cells. Enhances angiogenesis. |
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2 Colony stimulating factors |
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Classical, Alternate and Lecithin |
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Alternate Complement pathway |
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does not need prior contact with pathogen |
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Which component of complement is central in all three pathways? |
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Is complement a specific or non specific mechanism of self-defense? |
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Where do the proteins of complement come from? |
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30 proteins from the liver |
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Interaction of mannose sugars on microbe (MBP), surface of bacteria and yeast |
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Microbial polysaccarides on bacterial surface, kinins, clotting system (bradykinin, plasmin, thrombin) |
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activated by antigen antibody complex |
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Function of Complement system |
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chemotactic, lyse bacteria, opsonins, vasodilate, increase permeability, anaphylatoxins |
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Adhere to bacteria so lymphocytes can phagocytize it |
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Degranulate mast cells (bind to mast cells to release its components) |
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A plasma protein system that forms a fibrinous exudate or meshwork at inflammation site to trap exudates, microorganisms and foreign bodies |
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the end product from the cascade of events in clotting |
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A major enzyme of clotting |
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Is the intrinsic or extrinsic clotting system pathway faster? |
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What activates the Hageman factor in the Intrinsic clotting system pathway? |
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Endothelial injury (blood in contact with collagen) |
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What does platelet and tissue damage in the extrinsic pathway activate? |
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The intrinsic and extrinsic pathways of clot formation both convert_________ to ___________ to convert fibrinogen to fibrin? |
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Clotting system functions |
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Limits the spread of infection, Concentrates microorganisms and foreign bodies to areas of greatest phagocytic activity, Forms a clot to stop bleeding and to provide a framework for healing, enhances kinins |
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The Break down of a clot through the generation of plasmin. Activates complement. |
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collagen exposure activates the hageman factor to make kallikrein which activates bradykinin (primary kinin) |
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stimulates nerve endings, vasodilation, vascular permeability and stimulates PAF, chemotaxis, activates complement |
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B1- induced during inflammation B2- main physiological effects |
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activates inflammatory process, stimulates mast cell degranulation |
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4 Effects of Hageman Factor once activated |
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Activates clotting system, fibrinolytic system, Kinin system, Complement system |
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Plasma enzymes that destroy many components of inflammation |
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Carboxypeptidase, Histaminases, and aryl sulfatase B |
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Vascular effects are all_______ effects. |
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During exudation blood vessels leak ___-___g% of fluid and protein, compared to ___-___g% during trasudate. |
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Cells associated with Acute Inflammation |
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Neutrophils, eosinophils, lymphocytes, monocytes, erythrocytes, basophil, platelets |
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What type of marrow are neutrophils produced by? |
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polymorphous neutrophil- nuclei are irregularly lobed |
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What is the lifespan of a Neutrophil? |
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Neutrophils are classified as a _______, which contain lysosomal enzymes. |
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enhances the binding of an antigen due to the actions of complement or AB |
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seen mainly in longstanding (chronic) inflammatory lesions or in allergy or in some parasitic inflammations. release peroxidase and neurotoxins to damage multicellular parasites. |
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Eosinophils appear __to__ days after PMN. |
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What do eosinophils release? |
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some substances that neutralize some actions of basophils/mast cells |
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first cell type in viral infections, seen in chronic inflammation, agent of immunity, produce other mediators-cytokines |
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Are monocytes granulocytes? |
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When do monocytes undergo maturation? |
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important in demolition and healing process, antigen processing through the release of cytokines |
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cytoplasmic fragments from mega karyocytes in bone marrow, live about 10 days |
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Platelets degranulate to release... |
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serotonin, histamine, and platelet derived growth factor |
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Platelets contribute to the first phase of asthma by.... |
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generating thromboxane and PAF |
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what are the 3 steps of leukocyte infiltration? |
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margination- neutralize electronegative charge on cell surface Pavementing- need Ca2+, TNF, LTB, IL (adhesion molecules on leukocyte, integrin, and endothelium) Diapedesis- emigration (stepping across) |
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Before contraction the myosin head is ________ to the actin filament. |
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Before contraction sites on actin filament are covered by __________. |
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What happens in order for energy to be stored in the myosin head? |
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ATP binds to myosin and ATPase cleaves ATP leaving ADP+Pi bound to the head. |
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What happens during an action potential of a muscle cell? |
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Calcium is released into the sarcoplasm |
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What does calcium bind to in order to uncover the active actin sites? |
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What causes the myosin head to bend toward the arm? |
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myosin head binding to the active site |
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Once the myosin head has tilted, ATP+pi is released from the head, what causes it to detach from the active site? |
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ATP required to cause the separation of the myosin head from the actin filament. When there is no ATP--> state of permanent contraction |
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T-tubules are located directly over the ___________. |
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invagination of the sarcolemma. AP travels down t-tubule to interior of the muscle fiber. Allows for communication with extracellular space. |
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How many motor end plates are there per muscle fiber? |
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2 parts of the sarcoplasmic reticulum |
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longitudinal tubules and terminal cisternae |
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Where is calsequestrin found and what is its purpose? |
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located in the lumen of the sarcoplasmic reticulum. It binds to Ca2+ ions keeping them in the ionic form reducing the driving force for them to want to exit the SR |
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Depolarization of the sarcolemma triggers __________ gated ion channels on the SR. |
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smaller, innervated by smaller nerves, more extensive blood vessel supply, more mitochondria, large amounts of myoglobin, redder in color |
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larger, extensive sr, large amounts of glycotic enzymes, less extensive blood supply, fewer mitochondria, less myoglobin, lighter in color |
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Every muscle is a _________ of fast and slow twich fiber. (just have one that predominates) |
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______ motor units are activated first to give more ______ control. |
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Spatial summation of motor units |
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increase the number of motor units contracting simultaneously |
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Temporal summation of motor units |
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Increasing the rapidity of stimulation of individual motor units |
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max amount of contraction |
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5 essential components of a reflex arc |
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receptor, sensory neuron, integration center, motor neuron, effector |
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Myotatic reflex monitors changes in ______________. |
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A muscle spindle is both a _________ and a ___________. |
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mechanoreceptor and a proprioreceptor |
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3-10 small specialized muscle fibers enclosed in a spindle shaped connective tissue capsule. |
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Intrafusal fibers have a ________ portion in the center of the fibers and regular ________ portions on each end. |
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noncontractile, contractile |
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The central noncontractile portion of a muscle spindle is innervated by waht? |
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a 1a sensory nerve fibers (afferent) |
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The two contractile ends of the nerve fibers are innervated by what? |
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the gamma-motor fibers (efferent) |
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Receive input from collateral axons from alpha motor neurons and 1a sensory neurons and send inhibitory input to the alpha motor neurons of antagonistic muscles, thus reducing opposing tone. |
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produces a neurotoxin that inhibits the release of Ach subsequently shutting down the ANS and muscles |
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enters the body via a wound and produces a neurotoxin that blocks the release of inhibitory neurotransmitters causing muscles to contract uncontrollably. |
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single-unit smooth muscle |
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arranged in sheets or bundles, cell membranes form gap junctions |
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controlled by nerve signals and rarely exhibit spontaneous contractions |
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actin, myosin, tropomyosin, and calmodulin (binds calcium ions) |
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