Multiple Choice
In cortical neurons, you can identify the following five sub-cellular compartments. If you were to apply a sub-threshold current step of fixed amplitude to each one of them, where would you evoke the smallest change in membrane potential?
A) Soma
B) Terminal dendrites
C) Proximal dendrites
D) Axon
E) Axon initial segment
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