What are the major divisions of the nervous system? What are their major functions?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Central Nervous System: brain and spinal cord
Peripheral Nervous System: (1) Sensory afferent nerves and (2) motor efferent nerves --> autonomic (controls body's involuntary internal functions) and somatic divisions. Autonomic is further divided in to parasympathetic (rest and digest) and sympathetic (fight or flight) systems
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What are the effects of prostaglandin and histamine during inflammation?
What will be an ideal response?
Leptin
a. is secreted by adipocytes. b. leads to appetite suppression. c. targets the hypothalamus. d. both (a) and (b) above. e. all of these answers.
Fast adapting type 1 fibers respond to a tactile stimulus by a:
A. maintained increase in firing rate for the duration of the stimulus B. maintained decrease in firing rate for the duration of the stimulus C. transient increase in firing rate at the initiation and cessation of the stimulus D. transient increase in firing rate at the initiation of the stimulus and a transient decrease in firing rate at its cessation E. transient decrease in firing rate at the initiation of the stimulus and a transient increase in firing rate at its cessation
The jaw joint is the articulation of the ________ and the ________.
A. mandible; maxilla bone B. mandible; sphenoid bone C. mandible; temporal bone D. maxilla; zygomatic bone E. mandible; zygomatic bone