- What is the cause for tetany?
Decreased levels of calcium ions (Hypocalcemia)
- Name one X-chromosome linked recessive muscular disesase in which the gene codes to a protein dystrophin.
Duchene muscular dystrophy- Name a chemical that is used to block the sodium ion channels.
Tetrodotoxin (TTX)
- Name a chemical that is used to block the potassium ions channels.
Tetra-ethyl-ammonium (TEA)
- What is the process of disintegration of Nissl’s granules in the cell body after a nerve section called?
Chromatolysis
- Name the enzyme that is required for the synthesis of Acetylcholine.
Choline acetyl transferase
- What is the non-propogated depolarization potential produced at the NMJ called?
End-plate potential
- Which autoimmune disease is caused by the formation of circulating antibodies to the nicotinic Ach receptors?
Myasthenia gravis
- What is the condition caused by antibodies against one of the Calcium ion channels in the nerve endings at the NMJ called?
Lambert-Eaton Sydrome
- Who is Augustus Waller?
A scientist who first described the Wallerian degeneration in nerves.
( Physiology; UMS 2008 )
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