BME 20100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Membrane Potential, Pipette, Connexin

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Action potential generation (excitable tissues including neurons and muscle) Voltage-gated and ligand-gated ion channels in nerve signaling postsynaptic neurons. Resting membrane potential (mv) = -61 log (k+ inside / k+ outside) If extracellular k+ increases rmp less negative, less polarized. If intracellular k+ increases rmp more negative, more polarized. Nerve signals propagate as electrical impulses across synaptic cleft from presynaptic to. Change in mp triggers rapid opening and closing of voltage-gated na channels . Depolarization triggers opening of voltage-gated na channels and closing/opening of. Opening of vg k channels repolarization. Acetylcholine opens ligand-gated ion channels on receiving cell; na and ca enter cell. Acetylcholine degrading enzymes (acetylcholine esterases) rapidly degrade the depolarization of cell voltage-gated k channels acetylcholine and depolarize postsynaptic neuron acetylcholine in cleft. Each cell contains a connexon hemichannel formed from 6 individual connexin protein subunits. Allows passage of ions and small molecules. Measurement of ion conductance through membrane channels.

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