Nervous System Function and Signaling

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  1. 3. Ion channels that are activated by changes in the electrical potential of the cell membrane
  2. 4. The bodily system in vertebrates that is made up of the brain and spinal cord, nerves, ganglia, and parts of the receptor organs. It receives and interprets stimuli and transmits impulses to the effector organs.
  3. 9. A minute gap between messaging neurons
  4. 10. Synapse that uses neurotransmitters to transfer signals from one neuron to another
  5. 11. The resting voltage of a neuron (approximately -70 mV)
  6. 15. The extracellular space between pre- and postsynaptic neurons.
  7. 16. One of the cells that constitute nervous tissue, with the property of transmitting and receiving nervous impulses.
  8. 19. A signaling neuron
  9. 22. A reduction in the electrical potential of a cell that inhibits the firing of an action potential
  10. 24. Nerves responsible for sending out commands from the CNS to effectors in the body, such as muscles and glands
  11. 26. Nerve cell clusters
  12. 27. Chemicals used to send signals from one neuron to another
  13. 29. A neuron that receives messages
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  1. 1. Quick, unconscious movements controlled by the spinal cord
  2. 2. Nerves responsible for relaying sensation from the body to the central nervous system
  3. 5. The part of the autonomic nervous system that contains chiefly adrenergic fibers and tends to depress secretion, decrease the tone and contractility of smooth muscle, and increase heart
  4. 6. The return of a cell's electrical potential to its resting state
  5. 7. It is comprised of the cranial nerves, except the optic nerve, the spinal nerves, and the autonomic nervous system.
  6. 8. Any of the filamentous bands of nervous tissue that connect parts of the nervous system with the other organs and conduct nervous impulses.
  7. 12. The vesicle in the axon terminal of a neuron that contains neurotransmitters
  8. 13. A part of the vertebrate nervous system that innervates smooth and cardiac muscle and glandular tissues and governs involuntary actions (as secretion and peristalsis). Consists of the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system
  9. 14. Part of the autonomicystem that tends to induce secretion, increase the tone and contractility of smooth muscle, and slow the heart rate.
  10. 17. The part of the peripheral nervous system associated with skeletal muscle voluntary control of body movements
  11. 18. Unmyelinated nervous tissue composed mainly neural cell bodies
  12. 20. nervous tissue composed mainly of axons.
  13. 21. Electrostatic potential energy within a membrane
  14. 23. The change in electrical potential along the membrane of a neuron associated with the passage of an impulse
  15. 25. he channel proteins connecting the pre- and postsynaptic neurons in electrical synapses
  16. 28. The part of the nervous system that includes the brain and spinal cord