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What is an action potential?

What is an action potential? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A short term change in the electrical potential that travels along a cell such as a nerve or muscle fiber.
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As the action potential passes, special proteinaceous gates open in the cell's membrane.
The effect of oxaliplatin on action potential could be antagonized by the anti-epileptic drug carbamazepine.
Heart cells, like other electrically excitable cells, become inexcitable for a brief period after each action potential.
In neurons, calcium entry through voltage-gated channels tightly couples an action potential with transmitter release.
The latter is known to be due to the fact that hypocalcemia prolongs the duration of phase two of the action potential of cardiac muscle.
This reduction reflected the shunting and reduced amplitude of the antidromic action potential by the inhibition.

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