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What electrolyte causes depolarization by movement into the cell?
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Which electrolyte flows into the cell to initiate depolarization?
potassium The answer of potassium is dead wrong. Sodium is the electrolyte that flows into the cell to initiate depolarization. Potassium flows into the cell during repolarization.
Is depolarization in the heart passed cell to cell in the same way they are the neuromuscular junction?
false
How does the sodium potassium pump help with your homeostasis?
When a nerve cell (neuron) or muscle cell react, they do so by a process called depolarization. Before depolarization, the inside of the cell is slightly negative and the outside is slightly positive. During depolarization, sodium ions rush into the cell while potassium channels leak out. This reverses the original polarization and now the cell is said to be depolarized. The sodium/potassium pump helps reverse this back to its original polarized state so the cell can react again.
What does it mean when a cell is depolarized?
Depolarization refers to the reversal of charges of neuron cell membrane, it occurs by moving in of 'Na' ions .
Which pump is responsible for muscle contraction through depolarization of muscle cell membrane?
Ca2+
Which electrolyte flows into the cell to initiate depolarization?
potassium The answer of potassium is dead wrong. Sodium is the electrolyte that flows into the cell to initiate depolarization. Potassium flows into the cell during repolarization.
Is depolarization the same as contraction in the heart?
The nerve impulse causes the release of acetylcholine from the motor end plate. This causes the depolarization of the membrane of the adjacent muscle cell.
The bending of sterocilia toward the direction of the kinocilium of a hair cell causes?
depolarization
What causes rapid depolarization phase of a pacemaker cell?
Rapid depolarization happens after the membrane threshold has been reached and Na+ ions start to flow into the cell. As more Na+ ions flood in the cell becomes more and more positive. This causes the voltage gated Na+ channels to open creating a flood of Na+ ions and thus a rapid phase of depolarization. Shortly after this rapid phase K+ ions are released from the cell causing the cell to become more negative closing the Na+ channels and thus repolarizing the cell.
Describe the action of depolarization and repolarization?
Depolarization is due to the influx of Na+ which causes the cell's internal membrane to become more positive, leading to an action potential. Repolarization occurs when K+ leaves the cell causing the interior of the cell to become negative again.
How does the nerve impulse cause contraction of the muscle?
The nerve impulse causes the release of acetylcholine from the motor end plate. This causes the depolarization of the membrane of the adjacent muscle cell. Depolarization triggers the release of calcium ions from the sarcoplasmic reticulum inside the muscle cell. In the presence of ATP, the high calcium level causes the myosin heads to bend, dragging actin filaments towards the middle of the unit of contraction.
Is depolarization in the heart passed cell to cell in the same way they are the neuromuscular junction?
false
Define the term depolarization?
Depolarization is a term used in biology. It is the change in or loss of polarity or polarization in a cell by removing some of the negative charges.
A wet cell is an electrochemical cell in which the electrolyte is a?
true
What causes the movement of a drug across a cell membrane into body cells?
osmosis
Is acid an electrolyte for a dry cell?
no; it is for a wet cell instead
Does an increase or decrease in potassium extracellular ions hyperpolarize a cell?
An extracellular increase of potassium (increase of intracellular Sodium) causes depolarization. The opposite, I presume, meaning high intracellular potassium (inside cell) and high extracellular sodium (outside cell) would be hyperpolarization
