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Slide 11 Chapter 8 Axonal Transport Copyright © 2012, American Society for Neurochemistry. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Slide 2 2 FIGURE 8-1: Sequential…

Slide 1Resting and action potential Slide 2 Excitability of membranes intracellular space of animal cells is negative compared to the extracellular space – resting potential…

Slide 1Modeling the Action Potential in a Squid Giant Axon And how this relates to the beating of your heart Slide 2 Outline 1.The story of an action potentialThe story of…

Slide 1Discussion topic for week 6 : Nerve impulses & ion channels Potassium channels conduct the K + ions but reject the smaller size Na + ions with a selectivity ratio…

Slide 1 Slide 2 Exchange of ions across membrane during AP is far to small to significantly affect concentration gradients across the membrane. The net number of ions that…

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1. Hodgkin-Huxley & the nonlineardynamics of neuronal excitability . John Rinzel, AACIMP, 2011 The Hodgkin-Huxley model Membrane currents ‘ Dissection’ of the action…

1. 1 Lecture #1 I. Brain Function: Historical perspective 1-1 ‘Lesion’ Evidence: P. Gage - Frontal Lobes H.M. - Hippocampus Strokes - cortical II. Studying the Nervous…

The nerve impulse. INTRODUCTION Axons are responsible for the transmission of information between different points of the nervous system and their function is analogous to…