Stress and Anxiety. Dogs are sensitive animals; excessive stress or anxiety in their lives can cause hair loss. Sometimes hair loss is a bodily physical manifestation of stress, but other times anxious dogs will partake in compulsive licking that leads to hair loss in areas they lick too much. Dogs may get stressed or anxious due to a number of reasons, including confinement, bullying from other pets in the house, separation anxiety and past trauma or abuse.
Confidence votes 1.2K. Sodium. A positive ion (cation) that enters the cell (influx) rapidly when the membrane threshold is reached and the voltage gated sodium channels open. This occurs during the rising phase of an action potential, i.e. membrane depolarization beyond the threshold for activation.
As an action potential travels down the axon, there is a change in polarity across the membrane. The Na + and K + gated ion channels open and close as the membrane reaches the threshold potential, in response to a signal from another neuron.At the beginning of the action potential, the Na + channels open and Na + moves into the axon, causing depolarization.he course of the action potential can be divided into five parts: the rising phase, the peak phase, the falling phase, the undershoot phase, and the refractory period. During the rising phase the membrane potential depolarizes (becomes more positive). The point at which depolarization stops is called the peak phase.