Anatomy & Physiology

3rd Edition

ISBN: 9781259398629

Author: McKinley, Michael P., O'loughlin, Valerie Dean, Bidle, Theresa Stouter

Publisher: Mcgraw Hill Education,

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Explain summation of EPSPs and IPSPs and the relationship to the initiation of an action potential.

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