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#Question id: 7014


Microglia are often considered the “immune cells” of the central nervous system, since they function:

#Unit 5. Developmental Biology
  1. to fight disease-causing germs (pathogens) like bacteria, viruses, parasites or fungi, and to remove them from the body.
  2. to recognize and neutralize harmful substances from the environment.
  3. to fight disease-causing changes in the body, such as cancer cells.
  4. to engulf dying and dysfunctional neurons and glia.
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#Question id: 11187

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

Refer to the following graph of an action potential to answer the question.



The membrane's permeability to sodium ions is greatest at label ________.

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#Question id: 11188

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

Refer to the following graph of an action potential to answer the question.

The minimum graded depolarization needed to operate the voltage-gated sodium and potassium channels is indicated by the label ________.

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#Question id: 11189

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

Refer to the following graph of an action potential to answer the question.

At label ________, the cell is not hyperpolarized; however, repolarization is in progress, as the sodium channels are inactivated or becoming inactivated, and many potassium channels have opened.

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#Question id: 11190

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

For a neuron with an initial membrane potential at -70 mV, an increase in the movement of potassium ions out of that neuron's cytoplasm would result in the ________.

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#Question id: 11191

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

Opening all of the sodium channels on an otherwise typical neuron, with all other ion channels closed (which is an admittedly artificial setting), should move its membrane potential to ________.

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#Question id: 11192

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

A graded hyperpolarization of a membrane can be induced by ________.