 Action Potentials
"Action Potentials" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Abrupt changes in the membrane potential that sweep along the CELL MEMBRANE of excitable cells in response to excitation stimuli.
| Descriptor ID |
D000200
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G04.580.100 G07.265.675.100 G11.561.570.100
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| Concept/Terms |
Action Potentials- Action Potentials
- Action Potential
- Potential, Action
- Potentials, Action
Spike Potentials- Spike Potentials
- Potential, Spike
- Potentials, Spike
- Spike Potential
Nerve Impulses- Nerve Impulses
- Impulse, Nerve
- Impulses, Nerve
- Nerve Impulse
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Action Potentials" by people in this website by year, and whether "Action Potentials" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1996 | 0 | 5 | 5 | | 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1998 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 1999 | 1 | 6 | 7 | | 2000 | 1 | 5 | 6 | | 2001 | 1 | 5 | 6 | | 2002 | 4 | 6 | 10 | | 2003 | 1 | 7 | 8 | | 2004 | 4 | 3 | 7 | | 2005 | 11 | 3 | 14 | | 2006 | 10 | 5 | 15 | | 2007 | 1 | 10 | 11 | | 2008 | 11 | 12 | 23 | | 2009 | 3 | 14 | 17 | | 2010 | 7 | 7 | 14 | | 2011 | 5 | 11 | 16 | | 2012 | 10 | 13 | 23 | | 2013 | 8 | 11 | 19 | | 2014 | 11 | 16 | 27 | | 2015 | 4 | 15 | 19 | | 2016 | 7 | 8 | 15 | | 2017 | 10 | 11 | 21 | | 2018 | 7 | 8 | 15 | | 2019 | 8 | 8 | 16 | | 2020 | 6 | 5 | 11 | | 2021 | 2 | 4 | 6 | | 2022 | 0 | 6 | 6 | | 2023 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2024 | 2 | 7 | 9 | | 2025 | 0 | 9 | 9 | | 2026 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Action Potentials" by people in Profiles.
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Adam CD, Mirzakhalili E, Gagnon KG, Cottone C, Arena JD, Ulyanova A, Johnson VE, Wolf JA. Disrupted hippocampal theta-gamma coupling and spike-field coherence following experimental traumatic brain injury. Elife. 2026 Jun 12; 13.
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Hickman JL, Hughes G, Sahai E, Miles M, Denman DJ. Neural population dynamics of direct electrical stimulation of neocortex. Cell Rep. 2026 Jun 23; 45(6):117420.
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Diana G, Sermet BS, Broussard GJ, Wang SS, DiGregorio DA. High-frequency spike inference with particle Gibbs sampling. Elife. 2026 May 27; 13.
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Wang P, Wang L, Li BZ, Chen C, Lin Q, Li A, Lei TC. A Real-Time Neural Decoder for Decoding Perceived Odor Identity Within a Single Sniff. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2026 May; 73(5):1817-1827.
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Hickman JL, Santiago Moreno J, Hughes G, Sahai E, Garcia N, Denman DJ. Nonuniform spike count shared variability in the mouse early visual system. J Neurophysiol. 2026 Apr 01; 135(4):1018-1033.
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Gagnon K, Della Flora Nunes G, Welle CG, Hughes EG. Timing is everything: myelin and coincidence detection. Trends Neurosci. 2026 Mar; 49(3):159-160.
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Jaime J, DeFazio RA, Moenter SM. Response of gonadotropin-releasing hormone neurons from female mice to dynamic-clamp-simulated GABAergic conductances across development and after prenatal androgenization. J Neuroendocrinol. 2026 Feb; 38(2):e70144.
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Kushner JK, Hoffman PB, Brzezinski CR, O'Neill BR, Hankinson TC, Wilkinson CC, Handler MH, Hoeffer CA, Alexander AL. 4-Aminopyridine induced hyperpolarizing oscillations in pediatric human epileptic tissue are network-driven potassium currents that are abolished by activation of KCNQ2-5 (Kv7.2-Kv7.5) channels. Neurobiol Dis. 2026 01; 218:107252.
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Schamiloglu S, Clarkson RL, Stone NS, Liptak AT, Bender KJ. Intrinsic Dendritic Integration Features of Prefrontal Layer 5 Pyramidal Cell Subclasses. J Neurosci. 2025 11 26; 45(48).
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Grubb A, Nabrzyski R, Shamapant N, Zirille F, Padalia K, Cerbin L, Holzemer N, Rosenberg MA, Garg L, Barrett C, Sabzwari SRA, Tumolo AZ, Varosy PD, Zipse MM, Ashur C, Adewumi J, Tzou WS, von Alvensleben JC, Sandhu A. Clinical Predictors of Recurrent Cavotricuspid Isthmus Flutter After Catheter Ablation in Patients With Dextro-Transposition of the Great Arteries. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2025 11; 36(11):3042-3050.
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