Martha decided to make some delicious homemade baked macand cheese. She placed it in the oven that was really hot and whenit was ready she took it out. While she left for a second, her sonElijah came in the kitchen and immediately went to grab the hotdish and yelled “OOWWW I BURNT MY HAND” his pain receptorsscreamed.
1. Which of the following correctly described theafferent pathway?
a) Transduction of the pain occurred outside theperipheral axons of the primary afferent neuron.
b) The AP travels through the cell body then theperipheral axons then the central axon
c) The AP travels through the peripheral axons then thecell body then the central axon.
d) Two of the above
e) None of the above
2. Elijah immediately took his hand off the dish bycontracting his biceps. How did he accomplish this?
a) Shortened the sarcomere by shortening the thin andthick filaments
b) While shortening the sarcomere, he lost his H zoneand the A band.
c) The troponin left the tropomyosin to do its job incovering up the actin binding site so cross bridges can’tform.
d) Two of above
e) None of the above
3. Elijah was so scared and frightened that he startedhaving trouble breathing and became really anxious. As a patientwith COPD, he was having a really hard time breathing so his momran to get his inhaler. What did the albuterol inhalerdo?
a) Albuterol binds to cholinergic receptors in thebronchioles to move more air.
b) Caused his bronchioles to constrict.
c) Risked the possibility of the albuterol binding toadrenergic receptors in the heart and cause an EPSP
d) Two of the above
e) All of the above
