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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… 
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Evoked Potentials

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Membrane PotentialsSynaptic Transmissionspike train
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1986
1986
Action potentials, macroscopic and single channel currents recorded from growth cones of Aplysia neurones in culture.
Action potentials, macroscopic ionic currents and single channel currents were recorded from growth cones of Aplysia right upper… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Differential Depression of Myocardial Contractility by Halothane and Isoflurane In Vitro
Depressant effects of halothane and isoflurane on isolated right ventricular guinea pig papillary muscle bathed in Tyrode's… 
1984
1984
New Ca2+ agonist (Bay K 8644) enhances and induces cardiac slow action potentials.
Bay K 8644 is an analogue of nifedipine that has positive inotropic and vasoconstricting actions and was postulated to be a Ca… 
1983
1983
Acetylcholine Increases Resting Membrane Potassium Conductance in Atrial but Not in Ventricular Muscle during Muscarinic Inhibition of Ca++‐Dependent Action Potentials in Chick Heart
In atrial and ventricular cells from hearts of hatched chicks, acetylcholine reduced the overshoot and the duration of action… 
1977
1977
Facilitation of transmitter secretion from toad motor nerve terminals during brief trains of action potentials.
1. End‐plate potentials produced by brief trains of action potentials (5‐7 at 50‐100 Hz) were recorded at toad sciatic‐sartorius… 
1970
1970
Effect of calcium deficiency on cochlear potentials.
1970
1970
Extraneuronal potentials and potassium depolarization in cockroach giant axons.
1. Elevation of the external potassium concentration resulted in a marked positivation of both intracellularly and… 
Highly Cited
1952
Highly Cited
1952
Action potentials of isolated mammalian sympathetic ganglia
The present series of experiments is an attempt at analysis of the potentials set up by preganglionic volleys in the isolated… 
1941
1941
The effect of adrenaline on nerve action potentials
IT has been shown by Biilbring & Burn [1939] that in the perfused hindleg of the dog, when the vascular tone is low, adrenaline… 
Review
1933
Review
1933
Action potentials in sympathetic nerves, elicited by stimulation of frog's viscera
THE sensory impulses elicited by stimulation of the frog's skin have been the object of repeated study by Adrian [1926, 1932] and…