{"id":232,"date":"2016-11-16T04:08:57","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T04:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/?p=232"},"modified":"2016-12-06T02:09:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T02:09:58","slug":"relative-refractory-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/2016\/11\/16\/relative-refractory-period\/","title":{"rendered":"Relative Refractory Period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<strong>relative refractory period<\/strong> is the time frame in which it is more difficult than normal to fire an <a href=\"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/2016\/11\/13\/action-potential\/\">action potential<\/a>. An action potential\u00a0<em>can<\/em> be fired, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/2016\/11\/13\/neuron\/\">neuron<\/a> requires a greater stimulus. This period occurs when the cell is <a href=\"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/2016\/11\/16\/hyperpolarization\/\">hyperpolarized<\/a>. Therefore, a new signal will have to overcome the gap between the <a href=\"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/2016\/11\/13\/resting-membrane-potential\/\">resting<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/2016\/11\/13\/threshold-potential\/\">threshold potentials<\/a>\u00a0along with the amount\u00a0the cell is hyperpolarized. This period ends when the<a href=\"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/2016\/11\/13\/sodium-potassium-pump\/\"> sodium-potassium pumps<\/a> return the cell to resting potential. Compare to: <a href=\"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/2016\/11\/16\/absolute-refractory-period\/\">absolute refractory period<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/736x\/8c\/5a\/7b\/8c5a7b4930418a62cbe57293ca994ace.jpg\" width=\"367\" height=\"275\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">(&#8220;Refractory period&#8221;)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/glossary-of-terms\/\">Back to Glossary.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0relative refractory period is the time frame in which it is more difficult than normal to fire an action potential. An action potential\u00a0can be fired, but the neuron requires a greater stimulus. This period occurs when the cell is hyperpolarized. <a href=\"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/2016\/11\/16\/relative-refractory-period\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":734,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/734"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}