ESCAPE FROM PLANET SOMA (NEURONAL SIGNALING) Afier a valiant but doomed battle i

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ESCAPE FROM PLANET SOMA (NEURONAL SIGNALING) Afier a valiant but doomed battle in the distant Purkinje Galaxy, you are captured by the Glialiens, the most evil beings in all of the Cerebral Hemisphere. They imprison you in their outpost on the desolate planted Soma Chief Oligodendrog is acting as your guard. He agrees to release you from Planet Soma if you can answer a series of riddles. "My assistant will select several vials of poison that alter the neurophysiology of your body. Correctly predict the terrible effects produced when the poison is injected and you earn your release. But, predict incorrectly and you experience the effects firsthand." He smiles and clicks his clawed toes on the floor. Fervently hoping you remember something from those dreaded neurophysiology lectures in A&P;, you agree Poison I This poison inactivated voltage-gated sodium channels in nociceptive neurons. 1. a. How will the non-functional sodium channels affect the signaling capabilities of a neuron? b. What type of information do nociceptive neurons carry? c. Why would having this mutant gene be so terrible?

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1A.since the sodium channel is inactivated there will be no action potential and hence no pain.

B.nocireceptos carry pain stimulus

C.

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