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A 23 year old patient is brought in for having severe facial and arm…
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Physiology
Organ Systems
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Muscular
provides form, support, and movement for body
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Clostridium Tetanis
a common bacterium found in soil,manure,dust that can be spread through dirty needles
tetanolysin
Another toxin brought by clostridium tetanis, however the function fo this toxin is "unknown", it's just another pathogen feeding into tetanus
tetanospasmin
this toxin is a inhibitory neurotransmitter blocking GABA and glycine making the spinal and muscle neurons really excited causing the muscle spasms
Summation
It occurs in the Axon hillock and it's the process of where a neuron uses more than one message to determine if it should depolarize. It uses both Excitatory and Inhibitory signals
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Anatomy
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Summation
It occurs in the Axon hillock and it's the process of where a neuron uses more than one message to determine if it should depolarize. The channels that are involved in this process are voltage gated sodium channels with excitatory and inhibitory signals
Clostridium Tetanis
bacteria that coms from soil,dust, and etc which causes tetanus producing two toxins tetanolysin and tetanospasmin