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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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Heart cells, like other electrically excitable cells, become inexcitable for a brief period after each action potential.
Prolongs action potential duration and effective refractory period in atria, Purkinje fibres and ventricular muscle.
This reduction reflected the shunting and reduced amplitude of the antidromic action potential by the inhibition.
The effect of oxaliplatin on action potential could be antagonized by the anti-epileptic drug carbamazepine.
In reduced preparations, subthreshold stimuli increased action potential activity in identified serotonergic neurons.
However, in parapodial motoneurons, the action potential is initiated at or near the soma and travels to the axon terminal.

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