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A physician consults you, a pharmacist, to assist him in the choice of an anti-convulsive drug to help reduce his patient’s epileptic seizures.  You know that the seizures are caused by uncontrolled contractions of the skeletal muscle fibers, created by over-reactive neurons involved in the neuromuscular junctions.  You and the physician seek a drug which will ____________.

The movement of which ion is responsible for repolarization of a neuron which has sent an action potential message down the axon? 

The movement of which ion is responsible for repolarization of a neuron which has sent an action potential message down the axon? 

Which neuroglial cells in the CNS central nervous system secrete CSF cerebrospinal fluid?

A stimulus causing an electrical change in a neuron, but which does NOT progress to become a nerve signal sending all the way down the axon to the next cell, is called a(n)_________________.

A muscle which assists the prime mover in flexing a joint is called a(n) _____________.

Which type of reflex causes the knee joint to extend when the patellar tendon is tapped?

Which of the following choices best describes the proper sequence for a pain withdrawal reflex (somatic reflex arc)?

The ascending tract in the spinal cord which carries sensory information from the upper body (arms, thorax, shoulders) to the cerebral cortex (cerebrum) is the _________________.

Which of the following is a FALSE phrase about the spinal nerves?