* The generation of [[nerve signal]]s is another example, in which the membrane of a nerve fibre causes slight leakage of sodium ions through sodium channels, resulting in a change in the membrane potential, which in turn causes more opening of channels, and so on ([[Hodgkin cycle]]). So a slight initial leakage results in an explosion of sodium leakage which creates the nerve [[action potential]].<ref name=Guyton1991/>{{rp|page=59}} | * The generation of [[nerve signal]]s is another example, in which the membrane of a nerve fibre causes slight leakage of sodium ions through sodium channels, resulting in a change in the membrane potential, which in turn causes more opening of channels, and so on ([[Hodgkin cycle]]). So a slight initial leakage results in an explosion of sodium leakage which creates the nerve [[action potential]].<ref name=Guyton1991/>{{rp|page=59}} |