Based on Its Role in Skeletal Muscle and Cardiac Muscle

question 60

Short Answer

Based on its role in skeletal muscle and cardiac muscle, choose whether you would rate acetylcholine as an excitatory or inhibitory neurotransmitter. If you cannot choose one or the other, how might you evaluate whether a neurotransmitter is excitatory or inhibitory?

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