Given a neuroactive substance ‘Marijuana’ create an informational poster for an audience of your peers for educational purposes.
Given a neuroactive substance ‘Marijuana’ create an informational poster for an audience of your peers for educational purposes.
Content of the poster:
The poster should include all the following items.
Title: Be creative to draw in your audience. Include in your title the common and scientific name
of the substance
Structure: find a figure (and cite the source) of the structure of the molecule in question)
Formation: How it is formed (precursors, enzymes, etc.)? Where it is formed (neuron? Cell
body? Axon? Terminal? Other location? Natural or man made?)
Target: Where it acts (what organ, tissue, neuron type, receptors or molecular target)
Action: What does it do there? (Open ion channel, start intracellular Cascade, increase gene
expression)
Action: Where it acts (specific ion channel or gene, to open/close channel, turn on/off gene
expression)
Physiological and behavioral effects: What are the physiological effects? (e.g. increase heart
rate, increase or decrease synaptic transmission of certain transmitter, etc.); Behavioral effects?
(e.g., increase attention, activity, movement, consciousness, decrease focus, etc.)
Side effects/other effects: Are there any secondary effects or complications from this
substance? Positive or negative?
Metabolism: How is the signal stopped, how is the drug broken down and cleared out of the
body? What organs, processes do this? Are there any active metabolites (breakdown products
from when the drug is acted on by the body to eliminate it? And of so, what do they do?
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