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TERM 1 What is not a consequence of sympathetic activation? DEFINITION 1 Airway constriction TERM 2 Whether a synapse is excitatory or inhibitory is determined by the? DEFINITION 2 The receptor to which the transmitter binds. TERM 3 Experiments by Otto Loewi showed that ACH is released by DEFINITION 3 The vagus nerve which decreases heart rate. TERM 4 During multiple sclerosis, myelin in the brain is lost. Which cells would be most likely to try to replace lost myelin in the brain? DEFINITION 4 Oligodendrocytes TERM 5 Much of the energy that the brain expends is used for? DEFINITION 5 Maintaining ionic gradients
TERM 6 Generally, action potentials are not propagated along dendrites because they have little to no? DEFINITION 6 voltage gated channels TERM 7 In the mammalian brain, the major excitatory neurotransmitter is? which works by allowing? to enter the cell soma and dendrites. DEFINITION 7 glutamate, cations TERM 8 Nodes of ranvier are DEFINITION 8 gaps between segments of myelin TERM 9 The hippocampus is part of the? and is responsible for much of? DEFINITION 9 Telencephalon; memory consolidation TERM 10 A certain weak stimulus produces no reflexive resp, but a rapid repetition of that stimulus does produce a response DEFINITION 10 Temporal summations
