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.
In the depolarized state, the inside of the cell becomes the positive pole and the outside of the cell becomes the negative pole. The increase in membrane potential created between the inside and the outside of the cell during depolarization is called the action potential. Once a cell is excited (depolarized), it can excite adjacent cells and pass on its action potential, spreading depolarization to more and more cells.