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    The document discusses the roles of integral membrane proteins and how they can generate electrical potentials across cell membranes. It then asks how electrical impulses could cause the release of chemicals from cells, and how those chemicals could then generate action potentials in other cells. Specifically, it discusses how the neurotransmitter acetylcholine causes impulses in post-synaptic neurons by binding to receptors, and how the enzyme acetylcholinesterase breaks down acetylcholine to terminate the stimulus. Reabsorbing choline has the advantage of recycling it for the pre-synaptic neuron. When acetylcholine is released at neuromuscular junctions, it causes muscles to contract.

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    The document discusses the roles of integral membrane proteins and how they can generate electrical potentials across cell membranes. It then asks how electrical impulses could cause the release of chemicals from cells, and how those chemicals could then generate action potentials in other cells. Specifically, it discusses how the neurotransmitter acetylcholine causes impulses in post-synaptic neurons by binding to receptors, and how the enzyme acetylcholinesterase breaks down acetylcholine to terminate the stimulus. Reabsorbing choline has the advantage of recycling it for the pre-synaptic neuron. When acetylcholine is released at neuromuscular junctions, it causes muscles to contract.

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    The document discusses the roles of integral membrane proteins and how they can generate electrical potentials across cell membranes. It then asks how electrical impulses could cause the release of chemicals from cells, and how those chemicals could then generate action potentials in other cells. Specifically, it discusses how the neurotransmitter acetylcholine causes impulses in post-synaptic neurons by binding to receptors, and how the enzyme acetylcholinesterase breaks down acetylcholine to terminate the stimulus. Reabsorbing choline has the advantage of recycling it for the pre-synaptic neuron. When acetylcholine is released at neuromuscular junctions, it causes muscles to contract.

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    The document discusses the roles of integral membrane proteins and how they can generate electrical potentials across cell membranes. It then asks how electrical impulses could cause the release of chemicals from cells, and how those chemicals could then generate action potentials in other cells. Specifically, it discusses how the neurotransmitter acetylcholine causes impulses in post-synaptic neurons by binding to receptors, and how the enzyme acetylcholinesterase breaks down acetylcholine to terminate the stimulus. Reabsorbing choline has the advantage of recycling it for the pre-synaptic neuron. When acetylcholine is released at neuromuscular junctions, it causes muscles to contract.

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    1.

    Name three different roles of integral proteins in cell membranes.

    Can you think of two examples of molecules which have an electrical charge?

    How could an integral protein in a neurone plasma membrane cause a  different number of
    charged molecules in the cytoplasm on the inside of a neurone compared to the fluid outside
    the membrane (an electrical potential across the membrane).

    2.

    How could an electrical impulse cause the release of a chemical from a cell?

    How can a chemical cause the creation of an action potential in a post-synaptic neurone?

    3.
    Questions

    1.  Acetylcholine diffuses across synapses and binds to receptors. How does this
    neurotransmitter cause a new impulse in the post-synaptic neurone?

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    2.  Once it has bound to receptors in the post-synaptic membrane acetylcholine is broken
    down by the enzyme acetylcholinesterase (AChE). What is the effect of this enzyme
    on the stimulus of nerve impulses?

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    3.  What is the advantage of reabsorbing choline from the synapse for the pre-synaptic
    neurone?

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    4. When the nerve endings of a motor neuron release acetylcholine into a muscle what
    happens in the muscle?

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