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Action Potential in Neurons: Alila Medical Media
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This 7-minute YouTube video takes a close-up, animated look at action potential propagation. It explores sodium/potassium concentration gradients across the cell membrane and how movement of these chemicals through gated channels can trigger a neuron to fire an electrical charge. The graphs of Voltage vs. Time are more complex than simpler animations, showing each step of rising and falling phase for an action potential.

This video is part of a larger collection developed for use in lower-level undergraduate courses in anatomy, biology, and physics for life science majors. The videos can be easily adapted for use in high school courses as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBDXOt_uHTQ
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Keywords:
action potential, anatomy, axon, biology, dendrite, ligand channel, membrane potential, membrane transport, nerve signal, neuroscience
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Metadata instance created September 29, 2021 by Caroline Hall
Record Updated:
October 1, 2021 by Caroline Hall
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April 26, 2016
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Next Generation Science Standards

Disciplinary Core Ideas (K-12)

Types of Interactions (PS2.B)
  • Attraction and repulsion between electric charges at the atomic scale explain the structure, properties, and transformations of matter, as well as the contact forces between material objects. (9-12)
Structure and Function (LS1.A)
  • Systems of specialized cells within organisms help them perform the essential functions of life. (9-12)
  • Multicellular organisms have a hierarchical structural organization, in which any one system is made up of numerous parts and is itself a component of the next level. (9-12)
  • Feedback mechanisms maintain a living system's internal conditions within certain limits and mediate behaviors, allowing it to remain alive and functional even as external conditions change within some range. Feedback mechanisms can encourage (through positive feedback) or discourage (negative feedback) what is going on inside the living system. (9-12)
Information Processing (LS1.D)
  • Each sense receptor responds to different inputs (electromagnetic, mechanical, chemical), transmitting them as signals that travel along nerve cells to the brain. The signals are then processed in the brain, resulting in immediate behaviors or memories. (6-8)

Crosscutting Concepts (K-12)

Cause and Effect (K-12)
  • Cause and effect relationships can be suggested and predicted for complex natural and human designed systems by examining what is known about smaller scale mechanisms within the system. (9-12)
Structure and Function (K-12)
  • The functions and properties of natural and designed objects and systems can be inferred from their overall structure, the way their components are shaped and used, and the molecular substructures of its various materials. (9-12)
Stability and Change (2-12)
  • Feedback (negative or positive) can stabilize or destabilize a system. (9-12)
Scientific Knowledge Assumes an Order and Consistency in Natural Systems (1-12)
  • Science assumes the universe is a vast single system in which basic laws are consistent. (9-12)
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Alila Medical Media, (2016), WWW Document, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBDXOt_uHTQ).
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Alila Medical Media, Action Potential in Neurons: Alila Medical Media (2016), <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBDXOt_uHTQ>.
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Alila Medical Media. (2016, April 26). Action Potential in Neurons: Alila Medical Media. Retrieved May 4, 2025, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBDXOt_uHTQ
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Alila Medical Media. Action Potential in Neurons: Alila Medical Media. April 26, 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBDXOt_uHTQ (accessed 4 May 2025).
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Alila Medical Media. Action Potential in Neurons: Alila Medical Media. 2016. 26 Apr. 2016. 4 May 2025 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBDXOt_uHTQ>.
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