action potential
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0001508
A process in which membrane potential cycles through a depolarizing spike, triggered in response to depolarization above some threshold, followed by repolarization. This cycle is driven by the flow of ions through various voltage gated channels with different thresholds and ion specificities. [ GOC:go_curators GOC:tb GOC:dph http://openisbn.com/search.php?q=978-0-07-139011-8&isbn=1/ ]
Term info
Action potentials typically propagate across excitable membranes. This class covers both action potentials that propagate and those that fail to do so.
biological_process
GO:0001508
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/cl.owl
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_4895
Term relations
- regulation of membrane potential
- not (in taxon some Schizosaccharomyces)
- in taxon some (not Schizosaccharomyces)