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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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This reduction reflected the shunting and reduced amplitude of the antidromic action potential by the inhibition.
In the crayfish leg extensor preparation, the number of quanta released per action potential was approximately 15, at low frequencies of stimulation.
The whole sequence of events, from the inrush of calcium to the initiation of the action potential, takes place in less than two milliseconds.
The effect of oxaliplatin on action potential could be antagonized by the anti-epileptic drug carbamazepine.
In neurons, calcium entry through voltage-gated channels tightly couples an action potential with transmitter release.
In reduced preparations, subthreshold stimuli increased action potential activity in identified serotonergic neurons.

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