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Saltatory Conduction

Myelinated neurones propagate nerve impulses about 100x faster than non-myelinated neurones.This is because depolarisation can only occur at the nodes of Ranvier so there are longer localised circuits and the action potential jumps from one node to the nextThis is called saltatory conduction

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Specification: OCR Biology A (H420), A-level, 5.1.3 Neuronal communication. Topic: Neuronal Communication.

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