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POTENTIEL POSTSYNAPTIQUE INHIBITION [1 record]

Record 1 2014-04-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychometry and Psychotechnology
DEF

The change in potential produced in the membrane of the next neuron when an impulse which has an inhibitory influence arrives at the synapse. It is a local change in the direction of hyperpolarization.

OBS

It is a local change in the direction of hyperpolarization.

OBS

The frequency of discharge of a given neuron is determined by the extent to which impulses that lead to excitatory postsynaptic potential predominate over those that cause inhibitory postsynaptic potential.

Key term(s)
  • inhibitory post-synaptic potential

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychométrie et psychotechnique
CONT

Avec un retard d'environ 0,5 msec la microélectrode ME2, implantée dans un motoneurone innervant le muscle antagoniste, enregistre une hyperpolarisation ou potentiel postsynaptique d'inhibition (PPSI) dont l'amplitude peut atteindre environ 5 mV et la durée, environ 10 msec.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Psicometría y psicotécnica
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