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Physioex Lab Report: Pre-Lab Quiz Results
Physioex Lab Report: Pre-Lab Quiz Results
You correctly answered: All of these can reduce the likelihood of an action potential.
Experiment Results
Predict Questions
1 Predict Question 1: If you apply TTX between recording electrodes R1 and R2, what effect
will the TTX have on the action potentials at R1 and R2?
Your answer: TTX will block the response at R2 but have no effect at R1.
2 Predict Question 2: If you apply lidocaine between recording electrodes R1 and R2, what
effect will the lidocaine have on the action potentials at R1 and R2?
Your answer: Lidocaine will block the response at R2 but have no effect at R1.
2 With a slower timescale, the appearance of the action potentials generated at R1 and R2
will appear to
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You correctly answered: be compressed in time but have the same peak value of
response.
You correctly answered: TTX irreversibly blocks voltage-gated sodium channels in axonal
membranes.
Experiment Data
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Post-lab Quiz Results
You scored 100% by answering 4 out of 4 questions correctly.
1 In the control, the amplitudes of the action potentials at R1 and R2 are the same. Which
of the following explains this?
2 Blocking the voltage-gated Na+ channels between R1 and R2 with TTX blocks
You correctly answered: the propagation of the action potential from R1 to R2.
3 When voltage-gated Na+ channels between R1 and R2 are blocked with TTX, an action
potential is still recorded at R1 because
You correctly answered: the voltage-gated Na+ channels between the stimulus and R1 are
unaffected by the TTX.
4 Puffer fish must be prepared carefully and properly before they can be eaten. Eating
puffer fish can cause numbness of the lips, probably because i
You correctly answered: action potentials from sensory neurons in the lips are blocked.
Your answer:
2 What does lidocaine do to voltage-gated Na+ channels? How does the effect of lidocaine
differ from the effect of TTX?
Your answer:
TTX and lidocaine they all block the diffusion of Na+ across the channel. Effect of TTX is
irreversible while that of lidocaine
is reversible.
3 A nerve is a bundle of axons, and some nerves are less sensitive to lidocaine. If a nerve,
rather than an axon, had been used in the lidocaine experiment, the responses recorded
at R1 and R2 would be the sum of all the action potentials (called a compound action
potential). Would the response at R2 after lidocaine application necessarily be zero? Why
or why not?
Your answer:
The response in R2 with lidocaine would be greater than zero because it is recording total
action potential. Some axons
remain unaffected. The nerve response would be greater than zero.
4 Why are fewer action potentials recorded at recording electrodes R2 when TTX is applied
between R1 and R2? How well did the results compare with your prediction?
Your answer:
TTX applied to R1 have no effect because a stimulus has already passed through the axon
at that channel. However, the
TTX have an effect at R2 as predicted.
5 Why are fewer action potentials recorded at recording electrodes R2 when lidocaine is
applied between R1 and R2? How well did the results compare with your prediction?
Your answer:
6 Pain-sensitive neurons (called nociceptors) conduct action potentials from the skin or
teeth to sites in the brain involved in pain perception. Where should a dentist inject the
lidocaine to block pain perception?
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Your answer: