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They regulate sodium and potassium in your cells. If they fail the sodium rushes in. Water follows sodium and too much water in a cell causes the cell to rupture and die.
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Sodium potassium pump is an example of what?
Active transport
What element is a soft white material?
You think probable to aluminium.
How is glass prepared?
It is prepared by fusing sodium or potassium carbonate with sand or by heating sodium or potassium hydroxide with sand under pressure.
What metals tarnish quickly in air?
Check out Sodium, Potassium, Phosphorus Magnesium too once you get it started.
What kind of protein is the sodium-potassium pump?
a carrier protien
The sodium-potassium pump usually pumps?
potassium ions into the cell
What do sodium potassium pumps pump?
The sodium-potassium pump (PDB entries 2zxe and 3b8e ) is found in our cellular membranes, where it is in charge of generating a gradient of ions. It continually pumps sodium ions out of the cell and potassium ions into the cell, powered by ATP.
What is the effect of decreasing the number of sodium potassium pumps?
When number of sodium-potassium pump decreased, transport of Na takes little more time. Less number of sodium-potassium more time for transport
What are the two most important alkali metals?
The two most important alkali metals are sodium and potassium.
Is the Sodium Potassium pump located on the apical membrane?
Sodium Potassium pumps are located on your body cells. This pump is used as a type of active transport to let these ions into and out of your cell.
What is a brief description of the action of the sodium-potassium pump?
The sodium-potassium pump is a transmembrane protein in a cell membrane. It keeps large concentrations of sodium ions outside the cell, and potassium ions inside the cell. It does this by pumping the sodium ions out, and the potassium ions in.
What are the two most common alkali metals?
Sodium, lithium, potassium
What is the sodium-potassium pump?
the sodium-potassium pump is one of the most important carrier proteins in the animal cell.
What is the sodium potassium pump?
the sodium-potassium pump is one of the most important carrier proteins in the animal cell.
What is the electrolyte that plays an important role in the generation of nerve impulses?
Sodium, potassium, and calcium are the important electrolytes involved in nerve impulses
Why does water follow sodium and not potassium in the human body particularly in the kidney nephrons?
It follows both ... but sodium pumps are more common in your body.The only potassium pump I know of is in the kidneys - and is used for osmotic control.
What does the sodium-potassium exchange pump transfer into and out of the cell during depolarization?
The sodium potassium pump does not function during depolarization, but rather after repolarization. During repolarization, potassium ions flow out of the cell into the extracellular space to reestablish membrane polarity. What the sodium potassium exchange pump does is reestablish the initial ionic concentrations. It does this by exchanging three sodium ions inside the cell for every two potassium ions outside the cell.
