Synaptic Integration Means That ____

question 51

Multiple Choice

Synaptic integration means that ____.  

• A) positive or excitatory stimuli produce an excitatory postsynaptic potential
• B) the positive and negative ions neutralize each other
• C) excitatory and inhibitory signals are summed in a receiving neuron
• D) the adjacent neurons interact so that excitatory and inhibitory stimuli cancel each other out
• E) excitatory signals take precedence over inhibitory signals

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Definitions:

β-Furanose

A form of a cyclic sugar where the furanose ring has the hydroxyl group at the anomeric carbon in the beta configuration.

α-D-Glucopyranose

An isomer of glucose that is a six-membered oxygen-containing ring (pyranose form), important in biology and nutrition.

Anomers

Carbohydrates that differ in configuration only at the hemiacetal or hemiketal carbon atom, often referred to as the anomeric carbon.

Optical Rotation

The measurement of the degree to which a chiral compound rotates plane-polarized light, a property specific to chiral substances.