When an impulse is generated in a motoneurone by antidromic propagation of an impulse along the motor axon, there is invariably a two-stage invasion, there being with intracellular recording an initial 'small-spike' potential of 30-40 mV, leading on after a slight delay to a 'large-spike' potential of 80-100 mV (Brock,
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