NOUN
- the local voltage change across the cell wall as a nerve impulse is transmitted
How To Use action potential In A Sentence
- First, we found that action potentials in hippocampal neurons were initiated not only at the axon hillock, as in motor neurons, but also at a second site, which we inferred to be the apical dendrites. Eric R. Kandel - Autobiography
- Much as current flows through a wire, these impulses, known as action potentials, travel down the axon from its origin near the cell body to its terminal.
- This starts the process of impulse/action potential generation in the postsynaptic neuron or receptor cell. Neurotoxicity
- This traveling wave of altered electrical potential is called an action potential, more commonly known as a nerve impulse.
- In the acute isolated bullfrog sciatic nerve, the amplitude, conductivity and refractory period of the action potential were also observed respectively after administration.
- These spikes of energy, called action potentials, prompt the locusts to take evasive action.
- This reduction reflected the shunting and reduced amplitude of the antidromic action potential by the inhibition.
- Loss of gar - 3 function speeds up the repolarization of the terminal bulb muscles and shortens action potentials.
- TRPV1 can detect noxious stimulus and convert it into action potentials traveling to the central and forming pain sensation.
- Voltage-sensitive Na + channels are responsible for the upstroke of the action potential in excitable cells.
