BIO426 Nervous System

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Across
  1. 5. Electrical state of the cell membrane when the inside of the cell becomes more positive or less negative
  2. 6. Structure in arthropods that is equivalent to the vertebrates spinal cord
  3. 8. Neurotransmitter that stimulates muscle contraction
  4. 10. Electrical state of the cell membrane at rest when the inside is negative and the outside is positive
  5. 11. Most common site on a neuron of input from other neurons
  6. 13. Type of nervous system immune cell in the CNS
  7. 16. Type of myelinating cell in the PNS
  8. 18. Part of a neuron that houses the cell nucleus and conducts electrical signals to the axon
Down
  1. 1. Pain receptors
  2. 2. Ion that would cause hyperpolarization if entering into a resting cell
  3. 3. Bundle of neurons that send signals to places in the bodies periphery
  4. 4. Site on a neuron where an action potential is initiated
  5. 7. Type of neurotoxin that inhibits voltage-gated Na+ channels and may be released from the Japanese pufferfish
  6. 9. Neurotransmitter that is released during the fight or flight response
  7. 12. Type of neuron with dense dendrites (i.e. motor neuron)
  8. 14. Type of nervous system cell associate with blood capillaries in the CNS
  9. 15. Ion necessary for exocytosis of synaptic vesicles
  10. 17. Place where a neuron passes a signal on to its effector (i.e. another neuron)