. Electrotonic potentials
. Properties of graded potentials
. Types of stimuli
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. Strength ? Duration. Action potential
. Compound action potential
Electrotonic or Graded potential
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Properties of Graded Potential. Graded in nature
. Decremental conduction
. Depolarizing or Hyperpolarizing nature
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. SummationTypes of Stimuli
. Threshold stimuli
. Subthreshold stimuli
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. Suprathreshold stimuliStrength ?Duration curve
A.L.Hodgkin
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A.F. HuxleyJohn C. Eccles
. Graded Potential
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. Action Potential
1. Amplitude is
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1. Amplitude remainsproportionate to the
strength of stimulus
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same
2. Decremental: amplitude 2. Conducted in Al or
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decreases with timenone manner
and distance
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3. Can be summated
3. Cannot be summated
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4. Depolarizing or4. Large depolarizing
hyperpolarizing
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potential
5. Has threshold and
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5. No threshold orrefractory period
refractory period
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6. Due to ligand gated or
6. Due to opening of
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leaky channels openingvoltage gated channels
Compound Action Potential
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