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membrane potential
Sign in to saveAlso known as transmembrane potential, membrane voltage, membrane potentials
type of physical quantity
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- physical quantity
- Named after
- Walther Nernst
- Field of work
- electrophysiology
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- Commons category
- Membrane potential
- anatomical location
- plasma membrane
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Key: Blue pentagons – sodium ions; Purple squares – potassium ions; Yellow circles – chloride ions; Orange rectangles – membrane-impermeable anions (these arise from a variety of sources including proteins).
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