on the skeletal muscle plasma membrane we're going to have voltage
gated, ion
channels. Which
is going to be somewhat unique compared to what we
saw with Neurons, so that means that basically we are having a synapse
what to, what would be equivalent to the axon
initial segment.
And so that means that whenever we have firing of the
somatic motor neuron, for all intents and purposes we're also going to
have an action potential that occurs in the skeletal muscle membrane as
well, and we'll be talking more about that once we cover muscle.
But again, it's this idea that if that neuron fires we're going
to have an action potential in the muscle membrane and that's going to because
contraction, just because we're having a graded
potential right next to voltage gated channels.
And so it's a pretty much given that
they're going, one's going to follow the other.
So we've just had an introduction to the somatic
nervous system, where we're going to control many different types of movement.
One, because for instance, the diaphragm
that controls our breathing is skeletal muscle.
So, things like that as well as obviously
the muscles that are important for posture and locomotion.