Wednesday, January 21, 2009

What I learned today....

Today I learned that neurons have three parts. The first is the cell body, dendrites, and an axon. All cell bodies contain a nucleus. Today Dana broke down the neuron into 1,2, and 3 and explained how the neuron can be found in one of three natural states.
The above was'nt what was the most interesting to me, but what I really found interesting was both the voltage regulated channel (VRC) and the chemical regulated channel (CRC). I learned that in the CRC a chemical called acetylcholine causes the gate to open. CRC is also always open and refered to as the slow gate. The receptor is the channel. The VRC is a charge difference that is positive and the voltage is in the axon hillock. The VRC is refered to the fastgate which here sodium ions influx (move inward).
I also learned today that there are two molecular motors the kinesin which moves forward and binds and the dyenin which moves backwards and returns. Lastly I learned that Temporal equals time and spatial relates to numbers and these both are verbalized as summation events.