NURS 617 EXAM 3 ACTUAL EXAM 2024 NEWEST
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- Detecting, analyzing and transmitting information
o Provides foundation for intelligence, anticipation,
Functions of the nervous and judgment
system (4) o Controls skeletal muscle movement
o Helps to regulate cardiac and visceral smooth
activity
functional cells that conduct impulses to other nerve
Definition of Neurons
cells, muscles, or gland cells
Three parts of a neuron cell body, dendrites, axon
- Soma- nucleus- DNA and genetic codes
What does the cell body
- Cell activity
do?
- Metabolic activities
conduct info to cell body
What do dendrites do? § Extension of cell body that brings info into the cell
body
Long projections from the cell body (normally only
What does the axon do?
one) that pass nerve impulses
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- provide protection, regulate blood flow and
metabolic support for the neurons
Function of neuroglial o Form the myelin sheath from oligodendrocytes and
cells Schwan cells
§ Helps with the transmission of electrical impulses
along the nerve cells
Neuroglial cells of the oligodendrocytes
central nervous system
Neuroglial cells of the Satellite
peripheral nervous system
help to form the blood-brain barrier, which prevents
What do astrocytes do? the entrance of toxic materials from the blood to the
brain
Major fuel source for the Glucose
brain?
Afferent sensory- transmit information to the CNS
Efferent Motor carry information away from the CNS
Retrograde axon to cell body
Anterograde cell body to axon
Resting membrane polarized (no electrical activity occurs = -70 mV)
potential § Positive outside/ negative inside
sodium channels open- generate electrical impulse=
Depolarization +30 mV)
§ Negative outside/ positive inside
permeable to potassium- exit of K-return to resting
Repolarization membrane potential)
- Na close and K open
The minimum length of time after an action potential
Absolute refractory
during which another action potential cannot begin.
a stronger than usual stimulus is necessary to initiate
relative refractory period
an action potential
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