The Nervous System, Part 2 - Action! Potential!: Crash Course Anatomy & Physiology #9

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Neural mechanism: * The neuron is stimulated hard enough to send one signal each time at one uniform strength and speed. * The impulse is called an action potential * The brain translates the AP and understands them by their frequency * The body is electrically neutral but has in some areas a separation between the positives and negatives which creates a potential to generate electricity Measuring the AP: * The voltage is the measurement of potential energy generated by separated charges. It is called the membrane potential in neurons measured in mV * The current is the flow of +ve or -ve ions from one point to another. It is equal to the voltage divided by the resistance * The resistance is what is getting in the way of the current which is the cells’ membranes * The cell membranes separate the oppositely charged ions creating a potential to convert the electricity to something useful Resting neurons: They are more negatively charged on the inside of the cell relative to the positively charged extracellular surroundings. This difference is the resting membrane potential which is -70mV * The outside (surrounding) has a lot of +vely charged sodium ions * The inside (neuron cell) has some +vely charged potassium ions and a lot of -vely charged proteins which makes the overall charge negative * The neuron having a negative membrane potential is said to be polarized Sodium-potassium pumps: To distribute these ions, there are sodium-potassium pumps: * The membrane of the neuron is mounted by many sodium-potassium pumps. * For every two potassium ions that are pumped into the cell, three sodium ions are pumped out. This makes the outside more +vely charged * This difference is an electrochemical gradient Ion channels: To even out the charges again, there are ion channels: * Most are voltage-gated channels that open and close in response to changes in membrane potential (e.g. sodium channels which open at around -55mV) * Ligand-gated channels which open only when a specific neurotransmitter latches onto its receptor (e.g. serotonin or a hormone) * Mechanically-gated channels which open in response to physically stretching the membrane When the channel opens, the ions diffuse across the membrane down their electrochemical gradient to even out the concentrations while repelling other positive ions. This movement of ions is the key to all electrical events in the neurons Graded potential vs action potential: * Graded potential: * The stimulus is very weak * Only a few ion channels open and a bit of sodium enters the cell * A little change in the membrane potential occurs in a localized part of the cell * Action potential: * The stimulus is strong enough * Voltage-gated channels are triggered * A big change in the membrane potential occurs * A long distance signal is sent all along the axon Depolarization: * It starts with the neuron at resting state with closed ion channels and the inner voltage is at -70mV * An environmental stimulus occurs * The sodium channels are triggered to open which increases the charge inside the cell * The stimulus and change have to cross a threshold which is about -55mV (all-or-nothing phenomenon) * At the threshold, the voltage-gated sodium channels open and the sodium rushes into the cell making it highly depolarized that it becomes +vely charged (up to 40mV) * This is the action potential which is a temporary reversal of membrane potential or a brief depolarization caused by changes in currents * The AP sends off a biological chain reaction which sends the electrical signal down the axon. Each neuron has lots of voltage-gated sodium channels, so when a few in one area open, the local current is strong enough to change the voltage around them which triggers neighboring channels then the voltage around those and this continues down the axon * Then repolarization starts Repolarization and hyperpolarization: * The voltage-gated potassium channels open and the potassium ions flow out to rebalance the charges * At first, the flow of potassium ions is too much and the membrane briefly goes through hyperpolarization * The voltage drops to -75mV * The gates close and the sodium-potassium pumps work to bring things back to resting level Refractory period: It is when an axon has open ion channels and can’t respond to other stimuli. It prevents signals from traveling in both directions down the axon at once * Absolute refractory period: it is the first phase of this period lasting from depolarization to repolarization. It makes sure that each AP is its own unique all-or-nothing event * Relative refractory period: the second phase lasting from repolarization through hyperpolarization and back to resting potential Afterwards, it can receive another stimulus when it is back to resting potential AP characteristics: The AP always has the same strength but differs in: * Frequency: * A weak stimulus results in a low frequency of AP * A strong stimulus results in a high frequency of AP * Speed/conduction velocity: * Some pathways are faster (e.g. those for reflexes) * Some pathways are slower (e.g. those in the glands, guts, and blood vessels) * Larger axon diameter conducts signals faster because they offer less resistance, so they allow AP to happen faster * Myelin increases the speed of conduction since instead of triggering one channel at a time in a chain rxn, a current can leap from one gap in the myelin to the next. The gaps are called Nodes of Ranvier and this type of propagation is called saltatory conduction

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QUESTION: After hyper-polarization, how does the Na-K Pump restore balance (I mean increase the positive charge inside the cell), if it throws out 3 positive ions out of the cell and brings inside only 2 ? Shouldn't it make the insides of the neuron more negative ? ANSWER: When the inside of the cell becomes more negative than -70mV, then the sodium channel which is closed starts leaking and more Na+ ions start entering the cell due to the strong repulsion between the positive charges on the outside (Note: Even after the sodium channels open and close there should still be a lot of Na+ ions outside the cell than inside). So the leakage in the Na+ channel makes the inside of the cell more positive while Na-K pump makes it more negative. Both of them work together and maintain that sweet spot of -70mV. Hope this helps. Have a good one.

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at 9:35 it says that the sheeting of the oligodendrocytes doesn't leave space for Nodes of Ranvier. According to Vander's Human Physiology both PNS and CNS has those nodes. However, really educational and is helping me a lot with my physiology course!

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+MisterMajister Kolb&Whishaw (An introduction to brain & behaviour) state the same thing. This was my first time ever hearing that CNS axons don't have nodes o.O

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I believe what it's trying to say is that the nodes in the PNS are covered in Schwann cells which have basal lamina that surrounds the cell and continues over the node, while the oligodendrocyte nodes in the CNS are bare, meaning they don't have these "regular nodes of ranvier gaps"

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