5 Questions
Which technique did Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley use to successfully record the currents and conductances that make up the action potential?
Voltage clamp
What made it difficult to measure the action potential for a long time?
Inability to measure specific voltage
What did the first recordings of the action potential help researchers to understand?
The mechanisms behind the action potential
What breakthrough in understanding the action potential came from the experiments by Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley?
Recording the currents and conductances of the action potential
Where was a chunk of the axon placed in the voltage clamp apparatus?
In a dish
Test your knowledge on the mechanisms behind the action potential and the history of its recordings in this quiz. Learn about the passive properties and how the first measurements of this phenomenon were made.
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