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Propagation of the action potential HTML5

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Summary

This animation presents the ionic and molecular phenomena involved in the unidirectional propagation of an action potential along an amyelenic axon.

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Learning goals

  • To understand the ionic phenomena at the origin of the action potential.
  • To understand  the way a membrane’s voltage gated ion canals function
  • To clarify  the notion of an electrochemical gradient
  • To clarify the notions of the kinetics of the opening, deactivation and closing of voltage gated  ion channels
  • To understand why the propagation of an action potential is unidirectional.

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An action potential is a sudden, temporary inversion of a neuron’s membrane potential, resulting from a preliminary stimulation (of threshold value). The action potential propagates itself through…

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