ESS 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Substance P, Reuptake, Autoreceptor

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Iclicker: a message travels to the axon terminal, passes through the synaptic gap, and is received by the dendrites of the receiving neuron (a) Excitatory-increase cell firing, open gate and allow cations like na/k/ca to enter neuron. Inhibitory-nts reduce cell firings by allowing anions like cl- into neuron, which pushes cations out. If enough excitatory nts cause movement of cations, and total voltage reaches 40- 60 millivolts, action potential is reached--depolarizes and fires signal. Inhibitory nts keep voltage below action potential, inhibiting the cell from depolarizing/firing. First messenger system-the process by which the nt directly affects electrical transmission in the receiving neuron. Second messenger system-the received nts cause other biological and chemical changes that then affect the electrical transmission. Active/passive transport as nts complete job in receptors, then are released back into synaptic gap and are reabsorbed by the sending cell membrane (reuptake ports), returned to the vesicles and then are read to fire again active-against concentration gradient.

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