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Understanding membrane potentials and electrically excitable cells
Physiology Corner With Professor Howard
45 minutes 36 seconds
3 years ago
Understanding membrane potentials and electrically excitable cells
In this episode I discuss the way cells and their membranes set up electrochemical gradients and how those gradients can be used to do work and depolarize the cell according to the laws and principles of thermodynamics. This describes the electrical activity of both neurons and skeletal muscle cells.
Physiology Corner With Professor Howard
This podcast is about physiology of humans, and sometimes nonhumans, sometimes I make food while I talk.