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Part 1: Chapter 3
Voltage-Dependent Membrane Permeability
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Undergraduate 2
09/15/2014

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gabija
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the bestist roomie ever who loves Julia so much!! she also thinks she is funny sometimes.
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conduction velocity
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the measurable rate of transmission of the action potential; defines the time required for electrical information to travel from one end of a neuron to another
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myelination
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a process by which ogliodendrocytes in the central nervous system (& Schwann cells in the peripheral nervous system) wrap the axon in myelin
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myelin
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consists of multiple layers of closely opposed glial membranes; acts as an electrical insulator & greatly speeds up action potential conduction
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nodes of Ranvier
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a gap in the myelin wrapping of an axon; where the time-consuming process of action potential generation occurs
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saltatory
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type of propagation where the action potential jumps from node to node
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