endplate potential
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Related to endplate potential: excitatory postsynaptic potential, End Plate Potential, Reversal potential
endplate potential
The depolarization of the MOTOR ENDPLATE by acetylcholine that triggers the action potential and hence the contraction of the muscle fibre.Collins Dictionary of Medicine © Robert M. Youngson 2004, 2005
endplate potential
see ENDPLATE, MOTOR.Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005