1. What do we call electrical messages that are sent down the axon of a neuron?

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Patrick Terry

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1 November, 02:53

1. What do we call electrical messages that are sent down the axon of a neuron?

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Kamron Perkins · Answer 1

We call electrical messages that ere sent down the axon of neuron the Action potential.

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We call electrical messages that ere sent down the axon of neuron the Action potential. Action potential is the term which is used in neurology. Neurologist

uses this term and sometimes use other words in place of action potential which are spike or impulse. In this sodium channels open first and sodium changes the charge from negative to positive inside the cell.