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Medical Definition of Inhibitory postsynaptic potential
1. The change in potential produced in the membrane of the next neuron when an impulse which has an inhibitory influence arrives at the synapse; it is a local change in the direction of hyperpolarization; the frequency of discharge of a given neuron is determined by the extent to which impulses that lead to excitatory postsynaptic potential's predominate over those that cause inhibitory postsynaptic potential's. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inhibitory Postsynaptic Potential
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