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Action Potentials

Known as: Action Potential, Potential, Action, Potentials, Action 
A process in which membrane potential cycles through a depolarizing spike, triggered in response to depolarization above some threshold, followed by… 
National Institutes of Health

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Review
2001
Review
2001
Cell-transistor hybrid systems and their potential applications.
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Electrophysiological properties of rat spinal dorsal horn neurones in vitro: calcium‐dependent action potentials.
1. The electrophysiological properties of dorsal horn neurones have been investigated in the immature rat in vitro spinal cord… 
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Mediators of slow synaptic potentials in the myenteric plexus of the guinea‐pig ileum
1. Intracellular recordings were made from neurones in the myenteric plexus of the ileum isolated from adult guinea‐pigs. 
Highly Cited
1978
Highly Cited
1978
Synaptic transmission without action potentials: input-output properties of a nonspiking presynaptic neuron.
1. Input-output properties of the inhibitory synaptic connection between non-spiking neurons (EX1) and gastric mill (GM) neurons… 
Highly Cited
1977
Highly Cited
1977
Effects of low-chloride solutions on action potentials of sheep cadiac purkinje fibers
The rapid repolarization during phase 1 of the action potential of sheep cardiac purkinje fibers has been attributed to a time… 
Highly Cited
1977
Highly Cited
1977
Action potentials occur in cells of the normal anterior pituitary gland and are stimulated by the hypophysiotropic peptide thyrotropin-releasing hormone.
Electrical activity in the form of action potentials (spikes) was discovered in normal anterior pituitary cells obtained from… 
Highly Cited
1972
Highly Cited
1972
Effects of vinblastine and colchicine on neural regulation of the fast and slow skeletal muscles of the rat.
Highly Cited
1971
Highly Cited
1971
Action potentials and release of neurohypophysial hormones in vitro
1. Isolated rat neurohypophyses were studied in vitro and the hormones released on electrical stimulation of the pituitary stalk… 
Highly Cited
1965
Highly Cited
1965
Durations of Transmembrane Action Potentials and Functional Refractory Periods of Canine False Tendon and Ventricular Myocardium: Comparisons in Single Fibers
In vitro studies have shown that alterations in the ionic composition of the perfusion fluid, substitution of blood or plasma for… 
Highly Cited
1956
Highly Cited
1956
Resting and action potentials of cultured chick embryo spinal ganglion cells
  • S. Crain
  • The Journal of comparative neurology
  • 1956
  • Corpus ID: 41749273
first made on tissue cultures of spontaneously contracting fibers of chick embryo cardiac niuscle (Mettler, Grundfest, Crain 
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