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pane00

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What would you expect to happen if the enzyme AChE were to be disabled in your body?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Explain why saltatory conduction speeds up the velocity of action potentials.
 
  What will be an ideal response?


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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: My ACh activity would greatly increase, because AChE normally serves to degrade ACh. Later, this would lead to overstimulation of cholinergic receptors.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: In saltatory conduction, the action potential does not have to depolarize every segment of membrane, only those at the widely separated nodes of Ranvier.


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