BIPN 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Conformational Change, Motor Neuron, Skeletal Muscle

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burgundyfish293

21 Oct 2013

School

UCSD

Department

Biology/Animal Physiol & Neurosc

Course

BIPN 100

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Laurie Smith

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This is a brief large change in trans-membrane potential, this is an action potential. And ionic current across membrane, in this case 2 ionic currents. The rising phase depends on the opening of vg sodium channels. When the membrane channels open, the membrane permeability to sodium opens. There is a driving force on sodium at rest, and when channel opens there is a conductance so now there is an ionic current. (-) driving force = driving force is inward for sodium. Any negative driving force is inward on a positively charged ion. A change in total trans-membrane current (added new current), changes membrane potential, and sodium entering the cell -> more positive charge in cell that changes trans-membrane potential and makes it more inside positive. The depolarization that caused the voltage gated sodium channels to open, also causes voltage gated k channels to open. Voltage gated na opens very fast, the kinetics of this conformational change is very fast.

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This is the peak depolarization in an action potential. At this point in an action potential two events start to happen.

1. Na+ channels begin to inactivate, which is equivalent to closing.

2. A majority of the K+ channels are beginning to open.

Determine what happens to the membrane potential when voltage-gated K+ channels are open simultaneously with voltage-gated Na+ channels (and the leak K+ channels which are still open). Increase the membrane permeability to K+ by increasing it to 115.

i. What happens to the membrane potential Em? __________________________

j. Why does the membrane potential change in this direction? __________________________ Now inactivate the voltage-gated Na+ channels by reducing the membrane permeability for Na+ back to 1. k. What is the new membrane potential? _____________

l. Is the new membrane potential less negative or more negative than the resting membrane potential listed in line âbâ of this section? _____________

m. Why? (hint: what 2 types of K+ channels are open now?) n. Under the current ionic concentrations given, what is the most negative value that the membrane potential could reach? _____________ (Increase the permeability of the membrane to K+ to confirm your answer.)

o. What equilibrium potential has the same value? _____________

p. At this point in the action potential, when the membrane potential is more negative than the resting potential, the membrane potential is said to be hyperpolarized. What happens to voltage-gated K+ channels (membrane permeability to K+) to bring the membrane potential back to its resting potential near -70mV?_____________

When the membrane potential became more negative than the Threshold potential, the inactivated voltage-gated Na+ channels became reactivated. After the voltage-gated K+ channels closed to enable the membrane potential to return to resting membrane potential they became ready to open again. Both channels are ready to open again in order to fire another action potentia

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What would be most strongly affected by a drug that inhibited the opening of voltage-gated potassium channels (also known as delayed rectifiers)?

A. Falling phase of an action potential

B. Rising phase of an action potential

C. Resting membrane potential

D. Threshold for an action potential

Why does the voltage during the undershoot phase of the action potential become more negative than the resting membrane potential?

A. During the undershoot potassium ions are flowing into the cell due to the reversal of the potassium concentration gradient occurring during the action potential

B. The undershoot phase results from a delay in the activation of sodium channels, resulting in some sodium channels being open after the voltage-gated potassium channels have closed. C. The potassium conductance is higher during the undershoot than during the resting membrane potential.

D. The concentration gradient for potassium has been reversed as a result of the action potential, and the undershoot phase lasts until this the concentration gradient is restored.

silverdinosaur935

i choose aba for those 3 neuroscience question. but could any one help me if i got right?

5. Patch clamp studies have demonstrated that the following is trueâ¦

a. individual channels carry currents that do not predict the macroscopic current carried by the entire population in an axon

b. ion selectivity varies greatly among individual channels of a particular type (e.g. voltage-gated sodium channels)

c. channel behavior includes random fluctuations

d. individual voltage-gated sodium and potassium channels always open when the membrane is depolarized

7. The following is true regarding membrane property known as thresholdâ¦

a. it is primarily determined by the phospholipid composition of the membrane

b. it is strongly dependent upon the voltage-dependence of the voltage-gated sodium channels

c. it usually occurs when the membrane is hyperpolarized beyond the resting potential

d. it occurs when there is less depolarizing current than the leakage currents e. mutations in the sodium channel S4 domain would not be expected to influence threshold

8. Which of the following is a potential advantage of electrical synapses over chemical synapses?

a. their strength can be modulated at many different steps of synapse function

b. neurotransmitters can bind to distinct receptor types present at the same synapse

c. they can allow second messengers to pass between neurons

d. signals can pass more slowly preventing over-stimulation in the brain e. they help ensure that neurons are not synchronously active

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