Why does muscle fiber AP firing rate fail despite continued stimulation during high-intensity exercise?

💡 Explanation

The action potential firing rate declines because accumulated extracellular potassium reduces the potassium gradient across the cell membrane, which impairs the ability of the cell to repolarize fully. Therefore, AP firing failure happens rather than continuous firing, because the potassium gradient diminishes, not temperature or pump activity.

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