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Descriptor English: Action Potentials
Descriptor Spanish: Potenciales de Acción
Descriptor potenciales de acción
Entry term(s) potenciales en espiga
Scope note: Cambios abruptos del potencial de membrana que recorren la MEMBRANA CELULAR de las células excitables en respuesta a estímulos excitadores.
Descriptor Portuguese: Potenciais de Ação
Descriptor French: Potentiels d'action
Entry term(s): Action Potential
Impulse, Nerve
Impulses, Nerve
Nerve Impulse
Nerve Impulses
Potential, Action
Potential, Spike
Potentials, Action
Potentials, Spike
Spike Potential
Spike Potentials
Tree number(s): G04.580.100
G07.265.675.100
G11.561.570.100
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000200
Scope note: Abrupt changes in the membrane potential that sweep along the CELL MEMBRANE of excitable cells in response to excitation stimuli.
Annotation: do not confuse with SYNAPTIC POTENTIALS see SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION
Allowable Qualifiers: DE drug effects
ES ethics
GE genetics
IM immunology
PH physiology
RE radiation effects
Previous Indexing: Electrophysiology (1966)
Public MeSH Note: 68
History Note: 68(67)
Related: Neural Conduction MeSH
DeCS ID: 208
Unique ID: D000200
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Date Established: 1968/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2016/01/15
Action Potentials - Preferred
Concept UI M0000303
Scope note Abrupt changes in the membrane potential that sweep along the CELL MEMBRANE of excitable cells in response to excitation stimuli.
Preferred term Action Potentials
Entry term(s) Action Potential
Potential, Action
Potentials, Action
Spike Potentials - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0000304
Preferred term Spike Potentials
Entry term(s) Potential, Spike
Potentials, Spike
Spike Potential
Nerve Impulses - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0492952
Preferred term Nerve Impulses
Entry term(s) Impulse, Nerve
Impulses, Nerve
Nerve Impulse



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