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What do we call electrical messages that are sent down an axon of a neuron?

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I forgot it’s something like I can’t think of the name
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When the action potential reaches the axon ending, it causes another ion (calcium, Ca++) to enter the cell, which in turn causes the vesicles -- the tiny bubbles full of neurotransmitters -- to release their contents into the synaptic gap
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