Graded Potentials Spread by Passive Current Flow

Graded Potentials Die Out Over Distance

Graded Potentials are Proportional in Magnitude to Their Triggering Event 

- graded potentials are proportional in magnitude to their triggering event
- graded potentials spread by passive current flow
- graded potentials die out over distance

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Graded potentials are local changes in the membrane potential of a cell.  

Graded Potentials

Sherwood, L. (2010). Human Physiology: From Cells to Systems (7th ed.). Pacific Grove (Calif.): Brooks/Cole.

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