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What does depolarization mean?

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  1. The act of depriving of polarity, or the result of such action; reduction to an unpolarized condition.
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However, even with prolonged depolarization, only a fraction of stored neuropeptides, called the releasable pool, can be secreted.
An increase in turgor also causes a depolarization in the turgor-regulating charophytes Chara longifolia and Lamprothamnium succinctum.
In guinea pig airways, anandamide stimulates sensory nerves by inducing depolarization.
As the channel opens upon a depolarization, the trapped ion can escape to the intracellular medium increasing the stability of the bound toxin.
The depolarization opens the L-type calcium channels, causing inflow of calcium through the membrane into the cytosol.
We developed a new method to determine the amplitude of flickers in terms of millivolts of depolarization.

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