Summarize the following text for a junior high school student: An action potential occurs when the membranepotential of a specific cell location rapidly rises andfalls. [1] This depolarization then causes adjacentlocations to similarly depolarize. Action potentialsoccur in several types of animal cells, called excitablecells, which include neurons, muscle cells, and in someplant cells. Write your answer without using the letter s whatsoever in your entire response.
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