BIOL 3225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Postganglionic Nerve Fibers, Ligand-Gated Ion Channel, Tachycardia

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Is involved in the fight and flight response. Responds to the body"s overall response to stress. By causing changes in the activity of the viscera(organs) Examples: increased heart rate, increased respiratory rate, cold and sweaty skin, dilated pupils, decreased gi tract. Ganglia- collections of somas that live in the periphery. Nucleus- collections of cell bodies that live in the central nervous system. Tract- collections of axons in the central nervous system. Preganglionic neurons have their somas located in the thoracolumbar region of the spinal cord. Most postganglionic neurons will have their somas living in the sympathetic chain ganglion. Preganglionic neuron will receive ach and on the postganglionic neuron dendrites, you. Once ach binds to the receptor, it opens na+ ion channels, making it depolarized of the postganglionic cell, causing for an action potential. Postganglionic will produce norepinephrine whereas target cells have noradrenergic. These are metatropic(noradrenergic( separate proteins with channel and receptor)

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