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As the action potential passes an area on the axon, sodium channels are closed, preventing influx of more sodium ions. At the same time, voltage-sensitive potassium channels open, allowing the membrane potential to fall quickly. After this repolarization phase, membrane permeability to potassium remains high, allowing for the "afterhyperpolarization" phase.
During this entire period, while the sodium ion channels are forced closed, another action potential cannot be generated except by a much larger input signal.
This helps to prevent the action potential from moving backwards along the axon.
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Why does regeneration of the action potential occur in one direction?
As the action potential passes an area on the axon, sodium channels are closed, preventing influx of more sodium ions. At the same time, voltage-sensitive potassium channels open, allowing the membrane potential to fall quickly. After this repolarization phase, membrane permeability to potassium remains high, allowing for the "afterhyperpolarization" phase. During this entire period, while the sodium ion channels are forced closed, another action potential cannot be generated except by a much larger input signal. This helps to prevent the action potential from moving backwards along the axon.
What event occurs as a result of a muscle action potential?
Reflex action
What is an antiperistalsis?
Antiperistalsis is the action of peristalsis occuring in the opposite direction to the direction in which it usually occurs.
What is antiperistalsis?
Antiperistalsis is the action of peristalsis occuring in the opposite direction to the direction in which it usually occurs.
What occurs after a landslide?
regeneration
An electrical impulse moving down an axon is called?
This is called action potential. Action potential is the change in electrical potential that occurs between the inside and outside of a nerve or muscle fiber when it is stimulated, serving to transmit nerve signals.
Why is there an overshoot in action potential?
An overshoot in action potential occurs due to the rapid influx of sodium ions causing the membrane potential to become more positive than the resting potential. This depolarization phase is necessary for propagating the action potential along the neuron.
What process occurs when planarians grow a new head fission regeneration sprouting or budding?
regeneration
What will happened if any of this part is injured?
regeneration occurs
What is the sequence of electrical changes that occurs along the sacrolemma when a muscle fiber is stimulated?
action potential
What ion is the rising phase of the action potential?
Sodium ions are responsible for the rising phase of the action potential. This occurs when sodium channels open and sodium ions flow into the cell, causing depolarization.
Dendrites conduct both graded and action potential?
Dendrites primarily conduct graded potentials, which are local changes in membrane potential. These graded potentials can accumulate and trigger an action potential in the axon hillock if they reach a certain threshold. Action potentials are then conducted along the axon.
