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The Peripheral Nervous System

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Peripheral nervous system overview: The PNS is the communication network between the CNS and the rest of the body.
Organization and function: The peripheral nervous system (PNS) includes all neural tissue excluding the brain and the spinal cord.

  • PNS specific neurons: Unipolar Sensory Neurons: large myelinated neurons with the cell body off to one side of the single dendritic-axon process. Multipolar Motor Neurons: large myelinated neurons that have many dendrites off the cell body and an axon that may branch to effect many effectors.
  • Signal transmission: electrical signals are transmitted in 3 steps: (1) Neurotransmitters released from one neuron bind to and activate the dendrites of the next neuron. (2) If the signal is strong enough, an action potential is propagated down the axon. (3) Which causes the release of neurotransmitters from that neuron.
  • Action potential: When another neuron sends a sufficiently strong signal to the next neuron, the neuron excites to a threshold potential. Transporters on the cell membrane let positive ions into the cell, causing a change in potential, which spreads down the axon. This electrical propagation is called the action potential.

Glial cells of the PNS

  • Satellite Cells: The cell bodies of several sensory neurons form structures called Ganglia. Satellite cells are the glial cells that surround each ganglion.
  • Schwann Cells: Like Oligodendrocytes in the CNS, Schwann cells wrap themselves around neurons in the PNS to form the myelin sheath. Unlike Oligodendrocytes, which myelinate several neurons, a single Schwann cell forms a segment of myelin sheath.

Proprioception: involve sensors that keep track of where the body is in space. The five senses: The sensory nervous system includes sensory organs, which receive information from the environment, and sends it to the CNS.

  • Skin: detects temperature, touch, and painful stimuli. Three separate kinds of nerves detect sensation on the skin
    • Mechanoreceptors: Detect pressure and tension on the skin
    • Thermoreceptors: Detect the temperature of the
      stimulus
    • Nociceptors: Detect painful stimuli.
  • Nose: detects aromatic molecules. Thousands of chemicals can be detected by our olfactory and taste receptors and sorted into “pleasant, toxic, etc.”
  • Tongue: taste buds detect salty, bitter, sweet, and sour information.
  • Ears: detect sound waves with mechanical receptors. Fluctuations in air pressure move a membrane attached to hair cells in the Organ of Corti. These motions open ion channels in neurons, sending the signal to the CNS.
  • Eyes: detect photons or light. The retina is the neural portion of the eye. Photons (light) activate receptors on the retina and the signal is transported to the CNS via the optic nerve.

Motor nervous system

  • Spinal Nerve Anatomy: There are 31 nerves exiting the spinal cord, dorsal connections bring sensory information to the CNS, ventral motor connections send commands to the periphery.
  • Reflexes: For painful stimuli, involuntary withdrawal (like a hand from a flame) occurs without input from the brain. This very simple nervous pathway is called a reflex arc.
  • Autonomic nervous system: directly controls automatic body functions (involuntary movements). The autonomic system has two opposing parts: the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems.

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"Title" Tutorial Summary :
  • This tutorial is all about the peripheral nervous system and its functions. Specific details about the signal transmission through the peripheral nervous system are discussed. The cell types unique to the peripheral nervous system will be presented and their function discussed.

  • The afferent and efferent neurons that transmit the initial information to the spinal cord and then transmit the information from the brain will also be presented.

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Animated diagrams showing the five sensory organs and their mode of actions.

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  • Concept map showing inter-connections of new concepts in this tutorial and those previously introduced.
  • Definition slides introduce terms as they are needed.
  • Visual representation of concepts
  • Examples given throughout to illustrate how the concepts apply.
  • A concise summary is given at the conclusion of the tutorial.

"Title" Topic List:

Peripheral nervous system overview

Organization and function
PNS specific neurons
Signal transmission
Action potential

Glial cells of the PNS

Satellite Cells
Schwann Cells

Proprioception
The five senses:

Skin
Nose
Tongue
Ears
Eyes

Motor nervous system

Spinal Nerve Anatomy
Reflexes
Autonomic nervous system

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