How to Use action potential in a Sentence

action potential

noun

• The heart and your guts both have action potential wavefronts that propagate through the tissue.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2012
• Once the charge threshold is reached, an action potential is triggered and the neuron discharges.
  — WIRED, 31 Oct. 2022
• That may or may not result in a spike, or action potential, going out on the neuron’s axon to the dendrites of post-synaptic neurons.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 Feb. 2021
• And the events at the synaptic terminals when the action potential reaches the end of the axon are completely different than what is taking place in either the dendrites or the axon.
  — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
• In the heart, the action potential [electrical signal that travels along nerves – Ed] propagates as a wave through cardiac muscle.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2012
• What’s the consequence of all the work required to generate an action potential in the postsynaptic neuron?
  — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
• Improvement on the ground would figure to help quarterback Justin Herbert’s play-action potential and also boost the offense in the red zone, where the Chargers are scoring touchdowns on only 48% of their trips.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2022
• That’s a language that neurons understand because [the flood of sodium ions] depolarizes a neuron and sends a signal called an action potential, which can then talk to the next neuron.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2021
• Each neuron in the brain receives somewhere in the range of tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of action potential electrical signals from other neurons that connect into it.
  — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
• The patients’ action potential duration shortened under the stress.
  — Grace Leslie, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2021
• Each manipulated hair triggers an action potential — or electrical signal — that surges through the plant.
  — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 28 Oct. 2020
• Divide and Conquer The brain is a power-hungry organ; neurons are constantly sending each other information in the form of electrical pulses, known as spikes or action potentials.
  — Quanta Magazine, 23 Aug. 2016
• Neurons firing action potentials that affect the downstream cells they are wired to (via synapses) are one type of mechanism, as are electronic circuits, made of transistors, capacitances, resistances and wires.
  — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2019
• Huxley’s Nobel Prize winning work to understand the action potential - the basis for how neurons communicate with each other via discrete electrical impulses.
  — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 27 May 2021
• This was noteworthy because conventional action potentials are usually caused by sodium and potassium ions.
  — Quanta Magazine, 14 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024