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Membrane Potentials - Test 3

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True or False, the body is electically neutral?   True  
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True or False, all cells of the body have an electrical potential across their membrane?   True  
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What units are electrical potential measured in?   Volts or millivolts (in Biological systems)  
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What is current?   The flow of electons  
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True or False, the movement of a positive ion from one side of a membrane to the other implies a negative charge is left behind?   True  
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What is Ohm's Law?   I (currrent flow) = E (electrical potential) / R (resistance)  
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True or False, the lipid membrane has low electrical resistance thus, making it a good insulator?   False the lipid membrane has a high electrical resistance  
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True or False, The extracellular fluid and intracellular fluid both have low electrical resistance?   True  
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What is the conventional voltage outside the cell?   0  
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What are the 2 types of ion channels?   1. Leak channels - open all the time 2. Na/K ATPase Pump - electrogenic pump making the ICF more negative  
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What ions pass through leak channels?   1. Na 2. K 3. Cl  
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True or False, The membrane is 75 times more permeable to K than Na?   True  
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True or False, the Na/K ATPase pump account for only 5% of the resting membrane potential?   True, leak channels account for the remaining 95%  
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What are the 2 forms of gradients?   Electrical and Chemical  
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Together the two types of gradients form what?   The Electrochemical gradient  
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Inside the cell is relatively ________ compared to the outside of the cell?   Negative  
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What is the usual range for the membrane potential?   -40 to -90 millivolts  
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A cell with a resting membrane potential is said to be polarized or depolarized?   polarized  
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True or False, Both the inside of the cell and the inside of the cell are electrically neutral?   True  
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What factors determine membrane potential?   Membrane Permeability, Leak Channels, Na/K ATPase Pump, and difference in Ion concentrations  
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How many Na+ ions ar inside the cell? outside?   Inside 14, outside 140  
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How many K+ ions ar inside the cell? outside?   Inside 140, outside 4  
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How many Cl- ions ar inside the cell? outside?   Inside 4, outside 108  
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What ion helps balance Na+ in the ECF?   Cl-  
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What helps balance K+ in the ICF?   negativley charged proteins  
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True or False, The membrane is freely permeable to Cl-?   True  
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True or False, Na moves down its concentration gradient more easily and faster than Na+?   False, remember the membrane is 75 times more permeable to K+  
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True or false, the Ion flux would = 0 if 1 Na was pumped out and 1 K was pumped in?   True  
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Describe the Nernst Potential?   The Nernst Potential is the equilibrium potential for any ion across the biological membrane  
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What is the Nernst Equation?   Equilibrium of (X) = R(Gas Constant)T(temp.) / Z(charge or valence)F(farady's constant) log [X] inside / [X] outside  
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What is the easy way to calculate the nernst potential?   Equilibrium of [X] = -61mV log [X] / [X] outside.  
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Can proteins move in and out of the cell without help?   No.  
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What is the equation fo the net current flow (I) across a membrane?   I[X] = g[X] (ion conductance) {Em(resting membrane potential) - E[X](Nernst Potential)  
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True or False, when the resting membrane potential is not changing, then the sum of all currents must equal zero.   True  
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What are the 2 forms of electrochemical signals?   1. Graded Potentials = Short distance 2. Action Potentials = long distance  
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What is the jist of the Goldman Equation?   Basically the resting membrane potential is a sum of all the ion potential times their percentage of the total ion concetration.  
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