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The 94 pages that link to Action potential, each with the reason it gives.

• Cell membraneRelated: Nerve and muscle cells use controlled ion movement across their membranes to generate this signal.

• PotassiumRelated: Potassium movement helps repolarize membranes after an action potential.

• NeurotransmitterRelated: An action potential reaching a terminal often triggers neurotransmitter release.

• AcetylcholineRelated: An arriving action potential triggers calcium entry and acetylcholine release from nerve endings.

• NociceptionRelated: Nociceptive signals travel along sensory neurons as action potentials.

• Ion channelRelated: Rapid channel opening and closing generates and propagates this electrical signal.

• NeuronRelated: This electrical impulse travels along a neuron’s axon to its output sites.

• SynapseRelated: An arriving action potential commonly triggers neurotransmitter release at the presynaptic terminal.

• Voltage-gated sodium channelRelated: Sodium-channel opening produces the rising phase of many action potentials.

• Motor controlRelated: Neural action potentials carry commands through motor pathways to their targets.

• Sodium-potassium pumpRelated: The pump restores sodium and potassium gradients used during repeated action potentials.

• MyelinRelated: Myelin alters how this electrical signal propagates along axons.

• Sensory neuronRelated: Sensory neurons transmit many signals over long distances through propagated action potentials.

• GABA receptorRelated: GABA receptor inhibition often reduces the likelihood of these signals.

• Cerebral cortexRelated: Cortical neurons use action potentials to transmit signals between distant cells.

• AxonRelated: This traveling voltage change carries signals along the axon.

• SensationRelated: Many sensory signals travel from receptors toward the nervous system as action potentials.

• Nervous systemRelated: Action potentials transmit signals along many neurons.

• Receptive fieldRelated: Changes in a neuron’s firing provide a common measure of receptive-field responses.

• MechanoreceptorRelated: Receptor signals are encoded as action potentials sent toward the central nervous system.

• Potassium ionRelated: K⁺ movement helps repolarize neurons and muscle cells after excitation.

• Motor unitRelated: Motor neuron action potentials carry commands that activate a unit’s fibers.

• Neural circuitRelated: Circuits transmit fast signals through action potentials traveling between connected neurons.

• Reflex arcRelated: Action potentials carry neural signals along the arc’s neurons.

• Sodium ionRelated: Na⁺ influx through voltage-gated channels initiates the rising phase of many neuronal action potentials.

• Synaptic transmissionRelated: Its arrival at a presynaptic terminal triggers many forms of transmission.

• Electrolyte imbalanceRelated: Electrolyte shifts can impair the electrical impulses of nerves and muscles.

• LidocaineRelated: Lidocaine’s channel blockade slows the upstroke of action potentials in nerves and cardiac cells.

• OptogeneticsRelated: Excitatory optogenetic stimulation can trigger these electrical signals.

• Auditory nerveRelated: Auditory nerve fibers convey sound information as trains of these impulses.

• CationRelated: Sodium and potassium cation movements generate and reset many action potentials.

• Excitation-contraction couplingRelated: The muscle-cell action potential initiates the events that release activating calcium.

• TetrodotoxinRelated: Blocking sodium channels prevents the rising phase needed to generate and propagate it.

• Auditory systemRelated: Auditory nerve fibers encode cochlear activity using sequences of these impulses.

• Electric eelRelated: Synchronized action potentials trigger electrocytes to discharge together.

• Pain thresholdRelated: Nociceptor activity is transmitted toward the spinal cord through action potentials.

• BrainRelated: Neurons use action potentials to carry signals across brain circuits.

• Electric organRelated: Action potentials synchronize electrocytes to produce a discharge.

• Venus flytrapRelated: Electrical impulses relay trigger-hair stimulation across the trap.

• Catheter ablationRelated: Cardiac action potentials generate the electrical signals recorded and altered during ablation.

• Electric organ dischargeRelated: Action potentials activate electrocytes and shape the timing of an electric organ discharge.

• Hebbian theoryRelated: Neuronal firing supplies the activity whose correlation can alter synaptic strength.

• Luigi GalvaniRelated: Modern physiology explains nerve and muscle responses through electrical changes within cells.

• Electric rayRelated: Nerve signals coordinate electrocytes so their voltages add together.

• Nervous tissueRelated: Action potentials propagate signals along neuronal axons.

• BenzocaineRelated: Blocking sodium channels prevents the nerve impulses that would otherwise carry sensation.

• Emil du Bois-ReymondRelated: Later electrophysiology refined the electrical events that his experiments first made experimentally accessible.

• BatrachotoxinRelated: Persistent sodium entry disrupts the normal shape and propagation of these electrical signals.

• Passive transportRelated: Passive ion flow through voltage-gated channels produces the rising and falling phases.

• SarcolemmaRelated: An action potential travels along the sarcolemma to initiate excitation of the muscle fiber.