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In which segment of a neuron do you find the chemical gated channel?
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What is a gated channel?
It is a channel through a membrane that can be opened or closed by chemical or electrical events.
What type of ion channels does an actions potential in the axon terminal of a motor neuron open?
voltage-gated calcium ion channel
A molecule that is released from synaptic vesicles and serves as the means of communication from one neuron to the next or from one neuron to an effector cell?
a neurotransmitter such as acetylcholine, or dopamine. Even a neuropeptide.They will cause a receptor gated channel to open post synaptically
What is The region of a neuron with voltage-gated sodium channels?
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Which ion channel opens in response to a change in membrane potential and participates in the generation and conduction of action potentials?
Sodium channels. A neuron's membrane potential may depolarize for many reasons (neurotransmitters, mechanical deflection, electrical synapse, etc). When that membrane depolarizes to the point of its threshold of activation, then voltage gated channels open up an allow an influx of sodium into the cell. This rapidly depolarizes the cell's membrane, causing that upward peak or rising phase to occur.
Function membrane receptor at chemical synapse?
Membrane receptors at a synapse are ligand-gated ion channels that open and allow sodium ions to flow into the neuron upon binding of the neurotransmitter ligand to generate an action potential in the neuron.
In a neuron where are voltage-gated calcium channels located?
Found in the terminal
What is a stimulus gated channel?
There are voltage-gated ion channels and ligand-gated ion channels, and since both are stimuli the term stimulus-gated is a redundancy.
What would happen if a chemically gated sodium channel in the postsynaptic membrane were completely blocked?
The nervous system would not work if ion channels were blocked. It would be like parking your car on a hose and trying to get water out of the hose.
What areas of the neuron generate signals that open these voltage gated channels?
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How does an impulse travel from a presynaptic neuron to a postsynaptic neuron?
When the action potential reaches the button(axon terminal) of the presynaptic neuron the depolarization causes voltage gated calcium channels to open increasing intracellular calcium content. This causes synaptic vesicles to fuse to the membrane and release neurotransmitters that bind to the post synaptic neuron and create a chemical action potential.
When the action potential arrives synaptic vesicles containing neurotransmitters are released by what?
The voltage-gated Ca2+ channels are opened when an action potential releases neurotransmitters from a neuron. A neuron transmits nerve impulses.
