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The 8 pages that link to Refractory period (neurophysiology), each with the reason it gives.

• Action potentialRelated: Channel inactivation and recovery limit how soon another spike can occur.

• Voltage-gated sodium channelRelated: Inactivated sodium channels must recover before another impulse can begin.

• Cardiac conduction systemRelated: Refractoriness limits repeated activation and helps shape the rhythm of propagation.

• Cardiac action potentialRelated: The long cardiac refractory period prevents sustained contraction and limits rapid re-excitation.

• Saltatory conductionRelated: Refractoriness helps prevent a regenerated impulse from traveling backward.

• Nerve conductionRelated: It prevents immediate re-excitation and helps impulses travel in one direction.

• Atrioventricular nodeRelated: The node’s refractoriness limits how many rapid atrial impulses reach the ventricles.

• Edgar AdrianRelated: Limits on repeated firing helped explain the maximum rates Adrian recorded in nerve fibers.