An excitatory postsynaptic potential

a. is only one of several types of graded potential.
b. has a hyperpolarizing effect.
c. will drive the membrane away from its potential.
d. is summed with an inhibitory postsynaptic
potential at the input zone of a neuron in a
process known as synaptic integration.
e. is none of these.


Answer: d

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