What effect would this have on the function of neurons

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Assignment:

Answer the following questions:

1. What is summation and what are the two different types?

2. Tetradotoxin is a toxin that blocks the voltage gated sodium channels. What effect would this have on the function of neurons?

3. What happens when constant pressure is applied to a nerve?

4. The disease rabies is caused by a virus that attacks the central nervous system. The virus is normally introduced by an animal bite that breaks the surface of the skin. Since the virus is not motile, how does it get to the central nervous system?

5. Many medications introduced into the bloodstream cannot directly affect the neurons of the CNS- why?

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