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FACILITATION SUIVANT POTENTIEL POINTE [1 record]

Record 1 2010-06-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Muscles and Tendons
CONT

Cells whose spikes were followed by a clear postspike facilitation (PSF) of rectified muscle activity were designated corticomotoneuronal (CM) cells.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Muscles et tendons
OBS

facilitation : Il arrive assez souvent que, à la suite d'une sommation spatiale, la membrane d'un neurone postsynaptique soit dépolarisée jusqu'au seuil d'excitation par le potentiel postsynaptique excitateur produit à plusieurs synapses excitatrices. Il en découle qu'une dépolarisation moindre permettra quand même à l'axone d'atteindre le seuil d'excitation si d'autres PPSE surviennent. C'est le phénomène de la facilitation [...]

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