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What is the result of sodium ions moving across the axons membrane during an action potential?
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a neural impulse(electrical impulse) is released and it travels down the axon of a neuron to the axon terminals. At the axon terminal there are sacs called synaptic vesicles which contain chemicals called neurotransmitters. When the neural impulse reaches the terminal it causes the sacs to move closer to the membrane of the axon terminal and release the neurotransmitters inside. Then neurotransmitters travel across the synaptic gap and stimulate the dendrites of another neuron and the whole process starts again.
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Why does the polarity of a cell membrane reverse during an action potential?
During an action potential the neuron receives a stimulus causing the cell membrane to become more permeable to sodium than potassium, calling the polarity to change.
During an action potential hyperpolarization beyond more negative to the resting membrane potential is primarily due to?
Potential hyperpolarization are more negative to the resting membrane potential because of voltage. This is taught in biology.
During action potential transmission many ions cross the neuronal membrane at right angles to the membrane what travels along the membrane and acts as the signal?
neurotransmitters
What is the charge on the inside membrane during the resting membrane potential?
The resting membrane potential of a typical neuron is around -65mV
What ion is rapidly moving into the cell during the depolarization period of an action potential?
Sodium.A positive ion (cation) that enters the cell (influx) rapidly when the membrane threshold is reached and the voltage gated sodium channels open.This occurs during the rising phase of an action potential, i.e. membrane depolarization beyond the threshold for activation.
Why does the polarity of a cell membrane reverse during an action potential?
During an action potential the neuron receives a stimulus causing the cell membrane to become more permeable to sodium than potassium, calling the polarity to change.
During an action potential hyperpolarization beyond more negative to the resting membrane potential is primarily due to?
Potential hyperpolarization are more negative to the resting membrane potential because of voltage. This is taught in biology.
Which is the first step in a neuron production of an action potential?
Depolarization is the first event in action potential. During depolarization, the sodium gates open and the membrane depolarizes.
During action potential transmission many ions cross the neuronal membrane at right angles to the membrane what travels along the membrane and acts as the signal?
neurotransmitters
What is the charge on the inside membrane during the resting membrane potential?
The resting membrane potential of a typical neuron is around -65mV
What ion is rapidly moving into the cell during the depolarization period of an action potential?
Sodium.A positive ion (cation) that enters the cell (influx) rapidly when the membrane threshold is reached and the voltage gated sodium channels open.This occurs during the rising phase of an action potential, i.e. membrane depolarization beyond the threshold for activation.
What is the process called when sodium NA is pumped out of a nerve cell?
during action potentials, sodium and potassium cross the membrane of the synapse after the threshold of membrane potential is reached. There, sodium leaves the synapse and the membrane potential is now positive. this is known as depolarization. then during repolarization, the sodium channels close and the potassium channels open to stabilize the membrane potential. during this time, a second action potential cannot occur and this is an evolutionary advantage because it allows rest in the nerve cells and it allows the membrane potential to equalize.
Is an action spike an impulse created by an excitable membrane when it reaches the threshold?
Yes, during th rising phase of an action potential you will see the spike which is representative of the threshold (all or none) occuring.
What is the electrical charge of an action potential?
The electrical potential of the cell body changes during an action potential from a negative potential of around -70 mV to a positive potential of +40 mV. The resting potential, however, remains constant.
Influx of Na plus till 70mV?
The electrical potential difference across a cell membrane (the resting potential) is around -65 mV, inside negative. In nerve cells (neurones) or muscle cells this potential difference is reversed during an action potential. Sodium (Na+) channels open and Na+ ions enter the cell down their concentration gradient. This entry of positive charge depolarises the membrane ie it cancels out the resting pootential and then reverses it, so the potential becomes positive inside and negative outside, giving a potential of about +50mV.
What is in the cell membrane that can be opened or close?
There is more potassium inside the cell during a resting period...as an action potential occurs, the cell becomes depolarized, or in other words there is an influx of sodium, allowing the membrane to open. As the action potential comes to an end, the cell repolarizes, meaning the levels of sodium rush outside of the cell again, while the potassium flows back in. As another action potential takes place, this happens over again.
What is the Difference between a receptor and an action potential?
action potential has a threshold stimulus and depolarization is just change in membrae potential where inside becomes for positive relative to outside. The AP has the ability to actually transmit info over long distance in axons once threshhold stimulus/depolarization is reached
