What Would the Result Be If You Increase the Concentration

question 56

Multiple Choice

What would the result be if you increase the concentration of glucose and record intracellularly from orexinergic neurons?

• A) There will be no change in the membrane potential.
• B) There would be an increase in the release of acetylcholine.
• C) Orexinergic neurons will begin to fire spontaneously.
• D) The membrane potential of the neurons will become more negative.
• E) Orexinergic neurons only going to the dorsal raphe will begin to fire spontaneously.

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Definitions:

Generating Neurons

The process of neurogenesis, where new neurons are formed in the brain, contributing to brain plasticity and repair.

Neurons Together

An expression referring to how neurons function collectively in networks to process and transmit information in the nervous system.

Nucleus

The central and most important part of an object, movement, or group, forming the basis for its activity and growth, or in biology, the membrane-bound organelle in a cell that contains DNA.

Soma

In biological terms, it refers to the body of an organism as distinct from its reproductive cells, or in cellular anatomy, the cell body of a neuron.