Biomedical Engineering: Bridging Medicine and Technology 1st Edition by Veronique Tran,Mark Saltzman

Exercise 14

Action potential propagation is unidirectional. What ensures that the action potential is passed along the length of the axon in only one direction from the dendrites to the axon terminal? Also, what structural features of the synapse contribute to the one-way information transfer from the presynaptic neuron to the postsynaptic neuron?