#Question id: 11215
#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal
If excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) are produced nearly simultaneously through two different synapses on the same postsynaptic neuron, the EPSPs can also add together creating ________.
#Question id: 11216
#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal
When two excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) occur at a single synapse so rapidly in succession that the postsynaptic neuron's membrane potential has not returned to the resting potential before the second EPSP arrives, the EPSPs add together producing ________.
#Question id: 11217
#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal
One-way synaptic transmission occurs because ________.
#Question id: 11218
#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal
Neurotransmitters
can affect postsynaptic cells by ________.
I)
initiating signal transduction pathways in the cells
II)
causing molecular changes in the cells
III) altering ion channel proteinsIII) altering ion channel proteins
IV) altering the permeability of the cells
#Question id: 11219
#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal
The amino acid that operates at most inhibitory synapses in the brain is ________.
#Question id: 11220
#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal
The botulinum toxin, which causes botulism, reduces the synaptic release of ________.