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D2AR0N · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

What would you expect the impact to be on an organism treated with a drug that blocks neuronal sodium channels?

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Contrast local potentials versus action potentials.

What will be an ideal response?

yasmina · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 22, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Answer: Rapid death owing to the cessation of action potentials.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: Local potentials are graded in size, degrade with distance and can summate to produce an action potential. Action potentials are fixed in size, do not degrade and cannot summate.