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Action Conduction Potential Propagated Myelinated Axon Jump Adjacent

Front How is the action potential propagated along a myelinated axon?
Back - action potentials jump between adjacent Nodes of Ranvier
- saltatory conduction
- faster conduction

Tags: nerves

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