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#Question id: 11130

Which of the following electrical events is characteristic of inhibitory synaptic interactions?

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal
  1. A neurotransmitter agent that selectively opens ligand-gated chloride channels is the basis for an inhibitory postsynaptic potential
  2. Because the Nernst potential for chloride is about −70 mV, chloride ions tend to move out of the cell along its electrochemical gradient
  3. A neurotransmitter that selectively opens potassium channels will allow potassium to move into the cell
  4. An increase in the extracellular sodium concentration usually leads directly to an inhibitory postsynaptic potential
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#Question id: 11207

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

In multiple sclerosis, the myelin sheaths around the axons of the brain and spinal cord are damaged and demyelination results. How does this disease manifest at the level of the action potential?

 I) Action potentials move in the opposite direction on the axon.

 II) Action potentials move more slowly along the axon.

 III) No action potentials are transmitted.
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#Question id: 11206

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

Tetrodotoxin blocks voltage-gated sodium channels, and ouabain blocks sodium-potassium pumps. If you added both tetrodotoxin and ouabain to a solution containing neural tissue, what responses would you expect?
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#Question id: 11205

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

What would probably happen if a long neuron had one continuous myelin sheath down the length of the axon with no nodes of Ranvier?
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#Question id: 11204

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

Why do Na+ ions enter the cell when voltage-gated Na+ channels are opened in neurons?
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#Question id: 11203

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

Which of the following statements about action potentials is correct?
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#Question id: 11202

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

If you experimentally increase the concentration of K+ inside a cell while maintaining other ion concentrations as they were, what would happen to the cell's membrane potential?