Definition Action Location Name Miscellenous
100
What is clasp?
The Greek word for synapse.
100
What is the excitatory or inhibitory response?
Two types of synaptic response induced by action potential.
100
What is astrocyte?
This type of cell attaches to the chemical synaptic cleft.
100
What are second messenger systems?
Activation of metabotropic neurotransmitter receptors cause activation of this in the target cell.
100
What is entering the target cell?
The direction that the Cl- ion takes through ligand gated channels to affect target cell inhibition.
200
What is fusion?
The action that causes vesicles to leak into the synaptic cleft.
200
What are NA+, Ca2+, Cl-, and K+ ions?
Ligand gated ion channels are affected by these ionotropics.
200
What is pre- and postsynaptic cell membranes?
The location of voltage gated Calcium channels.
200
What is pain?
Endorphin polypeptide affects the perception of this.
200
What is exiting the target cell into the synaptic cleft?
The direction that the K+ ion takes to affect target cell inhibition.
300
What are 2 types of neurotransmitter receptors?
The ionotropic and metabotropic systems.
300
What is NA+ and Ca2+ ions?
These 2 ions will cause excitation when entering a target cell.
300
What is acetylcholine?
This neurotransmitter affects the peripheral and central nervous system.
300
What is dopamine, epinephrine, and norepinephrine?
The 3 catecholamine’s.
300
What is attention, cognition, emotion?
Monoamine neurotransmitters influence 3 brain functions.
400
What are the components of a neuron cell?
Dendrites, soma, axon, and axon terminals.
400
What is Cl- and K+ ions?
These 2 ions will cause inhibition of a target cell.
400
What are amino acids, peptides, monoamines, and other?
The 4 common neurotransmitter categories by molecular structure.
400
What is GABA, glutamate and glycine?
The 3 amino acid groups that affect neurotransmitters.
400
What is a peptide?
A large polymer that contains amino acids.
500
What is action potential?
This affects the amount of neurotransmitter release into the synaptic cleft.
500
What are second messenger systems?
Activation of metabotropic neurotransmitter receptors cause activation of this in the target cell.
500
What is GABA, glutamate and glycine?
The 3 amino acid groups that affect neurotransmitters.
500
What is GABA?
The most common inhibitory amino acid neurotransmitter.
500
What are serotonin, histamine, dopamine, epinephrine, and norepinephrine?
Name the 5 types of monoamine neurotransmitters.






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