| inhibitory postsynaptic potential |
Inhibitory Postsynaptic Potential is commonly abbreviated to IPSP. Impulses are transmitted from neuron to neuron by the release of a chemical transmitter across synaptic clefts from the synaptic vesicles along the axon to the postsynaptic receptors of another neuron. An EPSP has the effect of depolarizing--driving the charge to positive--a neuron and the IPSP has the effect of hyperpolarizing--driving the charge farther negative--it. ...
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| inhibitory postsynaptic potential |
An electrical charge (hyperpolarisation) in the membrane of a postsynaptic neuron caused by the binding of an inhibitory neurotransmitter from a presynaptic cell to a postsynaptic receptor; makes it more difficult for a postsynaptic neuron to generate an action potential.
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