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Noun Concept
Categories: Articles with short description, Membrane biology, Articles with permanently dead external links, Nervous system, Cellular processes
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action potential  action potentials  activation potential  AP  Firing rate
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The local voltage change across the cell wall as a nerve impulse is transmitted WordNet 3.0
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The local voltage change across the cell wall as a nerve impulse is transmitted WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
An action potential occurs when the membrane potential of a specific cell rapidly rises and falls. Wikipedia
Occurs when the membrane potential of a specific axon location rapidly rises and falls: this depolarisation then causes adjacent locations to similarly depolarise Wikipedia Disambiguation
Process by which neurons communicate with each other by changes in their membrane potentials. Wikidata
IS A
nerve impulse
organic process
bioelectric potential difference
HAS KIND
inhibitory postsynaptic potential
threshold potential
cardiac action potential
OPPOSITE OF
resting potential
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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action potential
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action potential
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action potential
Wikipedia Redirections
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Action Potential, action potentials, activation potential, Firing rate (cells), nerve impulses, nerve potential, nerve signal, neural firing, neuronal firing, Recurrent generation, spike (neuroscience), spike train
Wikidata Alias
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action potentials, AP, GO:0001508

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