| 1. | Emerging out from the soma is the axon hillock.
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| 2. | Immediately after the axon hillock is the axon.
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| 3. | The loss of staining begins near the nucleus and spreads toward the axon hillock.
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| 4. | The action potential generated at the axon hillock propagates as a wave along the axon.
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| 5. | This depolarization will travel towards the axon hillock, diminishing exponentially with time and distance.
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| 6. | The axon hillock is a specialized domain of the neuronal cell body from which the axon originates.
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| 7. | The net potential is then transmitted to the axon hillock, where the action potential is initiated.
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| 8. | The surge of depolarization traveling from the axon hillock to the axon terminal is known as an action potential.
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| 9. | From an inhibitory perspective, excitation comes in over the dendrites and spreads to the axon hillock to trigger an action potential.
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| 10. | Once this initial action potential is initiated, principally at the axon hillock, it propagates down the length of the axon.
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