INTRODUCTION OF EXCITATORY TISSUES

By Dr. Mudassar Ali Roomi (MBBS, M.Phil.) Assistant Professor Physiology RED  CNS

BLUE  PNS Divisions of : CNS & PNS (CNS): • Brain (in skull) & Spinal cord (in vertebral canal): Divided into gray matter & . • Formed by & supporting cells (neuroglia) • Gray matter: nerve cell bodies, proximal parts of & . • White matter: nerve fibers / axons.

Major parts of Brain:

1. Prosencephalon: Forebrain: (cerebral hemispheres, thalamus, hypothalamus). 2. Mesencephalon: Midbrain 3. Rhombencephalon: Hindbrain: (Pons, cerebellum, medulla oblongata) Brain stem: Midbrain, Pons, Medulla oblongata.

Peripheral nervous system (PNS)

• Formed by neurons & their processes outside CNS. • Cranial nerves (from brain) • Spinal nerves (from spinal cord) • 2 divisions of PNS:

SOMATIC / VOLUNTARY NERVOUS SYSTEM: Nerves supplying  skeletal muscles Controls movements of body by acting on skeletal muscles.

AUTONOMIC / VISCERAL / VEGETATIVE/ INVOLUNTARY NERVOUS SYSTEM: Function: Controls viscera 2 sub-divisions: SYMPATHETIC PARASYMPATHETIC

Cells of

TWO TYPES OF CELLS ARE PRESENT IN THE NERVOUS TISSUE: • Nerve cells or Neurons: which are excitable and conduct electrical impulses • Glial (neuroglial) cells or supporting cells: which support, nurture, and protect the neurons.

18 November 2013 6 The

• Structural and functional unit of nervous system. • Features: – Nucleus & cytoplasmic organelles. – No centrosome  cannot divide. – Branches  / nerve fiber & Dendrites.

18 November 2013 7 Nerve cell body (perikaryon or )

• It contains nucleus, cytoplasmic organelles, inclusions and cytoskeletal components. • Nucleus: it is large spherical and pale staining (vesicular) and centrally placed in most of the cases. It contains abundant euchromatin (chromatin is finely dispersed) and a large nucleolus (owl-eye nucleus).

18 November 2013 8 Nerve cell body (perikaryon or soma)

• (a) Nissl bodies/granules/substance (chromatophilic substance) - basophilic patches, cytoplasmic structures are concentrations of RER. *** • The amount of chromatophilic substance varies according to the type and functional state of the neuron and is particularly abundant in large nerve cells such as motor neurons • (b) - a variety of intermediate filament. • (c) Surrounding the nucleus are elements of the Golgi apparatus, mitochondria, lysosomes, and microtubules. • (d) Pigment is sometimes present, e.g., melanin in substantia nigra neurons (midbrain), and brown granules of lipofuscin pigment (wear and tear pigment) in old neurons. ***

18 November 2013 9 dendrites

(a) Definition: These are the neuronal processes that receive information and transmit it to the cell body. (b) Contain mitochondria, microtubules, and granular ER. (c) Nissl granules are present in the proximal part of the dendrites. (d) Lack Golgi apparatus*** (e) dendrites have spine-like side processes. function: Dendrites integrate the excitatory influences and increase the receptive area of a neuron.

18 November 2013 10 axon

• (a) Contains flowing centrifugally from the pyramidal shape starting-point of the axon - the . *** • initial segment is the site b/w the apex of the axon hillock and the start of the sheath. Action potential is generated here.*** • (b) Has mitochondria, neurofilaments, microtubules, travelling vesicles, and, in some neurons, secretion droplets, in the axoplasm. • (c) Membrane of the axon is called as , swelling out into a bag at its ends (synaptic boutons) which holds vesicles. • Axonal transport: Kinesin, are responsible for anterograde transport. Dynein allows retrograde transport .***

18 November 2013 11 Axon structure

3 LAYERS: (outside  inside) • : sheath covering whole nerve that contains many fasiculi of nerve fibers. • : covers each fasciculus of the nerve • : covers each nerve fiber within the fasiculus.

Internal structure of axon:

• Axoplasm: (long central core of cytoplasm in the axon) Receives synthesized proteins & neurotransmitters from cell body by axonal flow • Axolemma: (tubular sheath like membrane covering the axoplasm) • Axis cylinder of nerve fiber: (axoplasm + axolemma)

CLASSIFICATION OF NEURONS

Neurotransmitter Released

Cholinergic GABAergic Sympathatic Parasympathatic

Adrenergic Noradrenergic

Cell Processes

Multipolar Bipolar Unipolar Pseudo-unipolar Motor, pyramidal, purkinje Sensory, retina, olfactory mucosa, rods & cones Sensory, dorsal roots & cranial cochlear, vest. ganglia ganglia

Cell Size

Golgi I Golgi II Motor paramidal cell, spinal cord Function

18 November 2013Motor Sensory 14 Classification of neurons on the basis of structure

• Myelinated  covered by myelin sheath • Unmyelinated  not covered by myelin sheath

Myelinated Fibers

• myelin is a whitish lipoprotein complex. Sphingmyelin is the main lipid in it • These are axons of large diameter grow in the PNS

11/18/2013 16 Myelinated Fibers (cont.)

• Membranes of Schwann cells have a higher proportion of lipids (80%) than do other cell membranes. • Between adjacent Schwann cells the myelin sheath shows small nodal gaps along the axon, also called nodes of Ranvier. • The length of axon covered by one is called the internodal segment and may be more than 1 millimeter.

11/18/2013 17 Process of myelination (Myelinogenesis)

11/18/2013 18 Process of myelination (cont.)

11/18/2013 19 Myelination of nerve fibers

In PNS In CNS

11/18/2013 20 Morphological Classification of neurons- according to the number of cell processes

• Unipolar neurons : rare in humans. Found in the mesencephalic nucleus of the 5th cranial nerve • pseudounipolar neurons, which have a single process that bifurcates close to the perikaryon, with the longer branch extending to a peripheral ending and the other toward the CNS. Examples: found in the dorsal root ganglia of spinal nerves • Bipolar neurons, with one and one axon. These neurons are found in cochlear and vestibular ganglia, retina and olfactory epithelium. • Multipolar neurons, which have one axon and two or many dendrites. Most human neurons are of this type. Some examples are: pyramidal cells of cerebral cortex, Purkinje cells of cerebellar cortex, and anterior horn cells of the spinal cord. 18 November 2013 21 18 November 2013 22

Classification of Neurons by Functional Role Motor (efferent) neurons • (CNS  Periphery) • Motor neurons control effector organs and muscle fibers. Sensory (afferent) neurons • (periphery  CNS) • Sensory neurons receive sensory stimuli from the internal or external environment and relay them to the CNS.

18 November 2013 23 Classification of Neurons-according to the length of their axons Golgi type I neurons: possess many dendrites and a very long axon that leaves the in which its cell body is present. Examples: • pyramidal cells of the cerebral cortex • anterior horn cells of the spinal cord.

Golgi type II neurons: possess many dendrites and a relatively short axon that does not leave the part of grey matter in which the cell body of the neuron is present. Example: • Interneurons.

18 November 2013 24 Classification On the basis of distribution:

• Somatic  supply skeletal muscles • Visceral / Autonomic  supply internal organs Classification on the basis of source of origin:

• Cranial  from the brain • Spinal  from the spinal cord COMPOUND ACTION POTENTIAL basis for physiological classification of nerve fibers.

• Action potential recording from a nerve trunk. • 3 main peaks: A, B, C. • A peak is further divided into  alpha, beta, gamma, delta. • A & B types are myelinated & C type is unmyelinated.

November 18, 2013 27 Electrophysiologic classification of nerve fibers

November 18, 2013 28 Sensory classification of nerve fibers

November 18, 2013 29 Sensory classification Vs electrophysiological classification • Type A (myelinated): A-alpha (Group Ia & Ib), A-beta (Group II), A-gamma (Group II), A-delta (Group III). • Type B (myelinated) • Type C (unmyelinated): Group IV

Diameter is directly proportional to conduction velocity.

Range of velocity: 120m/sec (in large myelinated fibers) to 0.5 m/sec (in smallest unmyelinated fibers).

Sensory classification Vs electrophysiological classification

Ia / A Ib /A II /A beta III /A IV / C alpha alpha delta

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