Physiology 3 Synaptic Transmission
Objectives:
- Understand how action potentials are propagated in particular the role of myelin
- understand the role of the chemical synapse
Objective based questioning:
Content:
What are action potentials make a wave of depolarisations along the length of the axon that propagate to the end
lecture discusses how action potentials propagate
things that alter the speed of conduction
propagation in myelinated axons, saltatory conduction
consequences of demyelination
types of postsynaptic receptors
nicotinic (ionotropic) and muscinaric (metabotropic)
understand what a chemical cynapse is