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What is the difference between the way excitatory and inhibitory transmitters work?
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∙ 15y ago
As a rule more than one presynaptic action potential is needed to fire the postsynaptic neuron or muscle so that the trigger to initiate an action potential are either many subthreshold local potentials from different sources or from the same neuron received within a short period of time. The first case is called spatial summation and the second case is called temporal summation. Whether a postsynaptic potential (another term for a local potential) is excitatory or inhibitory depends on what ion channels are affected by the transmitter released from the presynaptic vesicles.
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∙ 13y agoPostsynaptic potentials (PSPs) are depolarizations/hyperpolarizations that increase the likelihood that a cell will have an action potential (AP).
PSPs are fast, graded responses and their signal travels passively through the neuron's membrane and are therefore decremental (getting weaker as it gets farther from the site of generation). In other words, these are the inputs to neuron that could make the neuron fire.
APs is what happens if enough PSPs sum up. This is the neuron firing. There is a massive but short reversal of the membrane potential. The signal travels actively down the axon (read about voltage-activated sodium and potassium channels), so the AP is not decremental and is an all-or-nothing response.
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∙ 15y agoExcitatory increases the likelihood of the cell firing an action potential. Inhibitory decreases the likelihood.
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