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  2. Repolarization - Wikipedia

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    A labeled diagram of an action potential.As seen above, repolarization takes place just after the peak of the action potential, when K + ions rush out of the cell.. In neuroscience, repolarization refers to the change in membrane potential that returns it to a negative value just after the depolarization phase of an action potential which has changed the membrane potential to a positive value.

  3. Action potential - Wikipedia

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    Shape of a typical action potential. The membrane potential remains near a baseline level until at some point in time, it abruptly spikes upward and then rapidly falls. Nearly all cell membranes in animals, plants and fungi maintain a voltage difference between the exterior and interior of the cell, called the membrane potential. A typical ...

  4. Ventricular action potential - Wikipedia

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    When an action potential is generated, the membrane potential rises above this level in five distinct phases. [1] Phase 4: Resting membrane potential remains stable at ≈−90 mV. [1] Phase 0: Rapid depolarisation, shifting the voltage to positive.

  5. Resting potential - Wikipedia

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    The Na + /K +-ATPase, as well as effects of diffusion of the involved ions, are major mechanisms to maintain the resting potential across the membranes of animal cells.. The relatively static membrane potential of quiescent cells is called the resting membrane potential (or resting voltage), as opposed to the specific dynamic electrochemical phenomena called action potential and graded ...

  6. Voltage-gated sodium channel - Wikipedia

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    Instead, they are homologous to neural cell adhesion molecules (CAMs) and the large family of L1 CAMs. There are four distinct betas named in order of discovery: SCN1B, SCN2B, SCN3B, SCN4B (table 2). Beta 1 and beta 3 interact with the alpha subunit non-covalently, whereas beta 2 and beta 4 associate with alpha via disulfide bond. [19]

  7. Cardiac transient outward potassium current - Wikipedia

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    The cardiac action potential has five phases. I to1 is active during phase 1, causing a fast repolarization of the action potential. The cardiac transient outward potassium current (referred to as I to1 or I to [1]) is one of the ion currents across the cell membrane of heart muscle cells.

  8. Living longer, not healthier: Study finds periods of poor ...

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    The "healthspan-lifespan gap" was largest in the U.S., as Americans live in poor health for an average of 12.4 years, compared to 10.9 years in 2000.

  9. Refractory period (physiology) - Wikipedia

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    During repolarization, voltage-gated sodium ion channels inactivate (different from the closed state) due to the now-depolarized membrane, and voltage-gated potassium channels activate (open). Both the inactivation of the sodium ion channels and the opening of the potassium ion channels act to repolarize the cell's membrane potential back to ...