Medical, medication informative and instructional
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When a patient experiences a painful stimulus, the voltage gated sodium ion channels of nerve cells open at the site of injury, allowing an influx of ions into the cell. This depolarizes the cell causing the pain signal to travel along the nerve cell membrane to the brain. Local anesthetics like bupivac work by preventing the influx of sodium ions thereby interrupting the neuronal propagation.