Medical Definition of Node of Ranvier
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A region of exposed neuronal plasma membrane in a myelinated axon. Nodes contain very high concentrations of voltage gated ion channels and are the site of propagation of action potentials by saltatory conduction.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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