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The nervous system would not work if ion channels were blocked. It would be like parking your car on a hose and trying to get water out of the hose.

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If the chemically gated sodium channels in the postsynaptic membrane were completely blocked the impulse would not be able to be passed from the presynaptic neuron to the postsynaptic neuron.

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Synaptic transmission would fail

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