Sentences with phrase «carry electrical impulses»

Electrolytes are vital because they are what your cells use to carry electrical impulses (muscle contractions) across themselves and to other cells.

They also carry electrical impulses across the cell and to neighboring cells in order to promote muscle contractions and nerve impulses.

Electrolytes are important because they are what your cells (especially nerve, heart, muscle) use to maintain voltages across their cell membranes and to carry electrical impulses (nerve impulses, muscle contractions) across themselves and to other cells.

They form sheaths around axons, the tail - like parts of nerve cells that carry electrical impulses.

Potassium is an electrolyte that acts as a messenger carrying the electrical impulses that stimulate our nerves and muscles.

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Specialised cells that could carry messages using electrical impulses and chemical signals — the first nerve cells — arose very early on.

This particular ion channel transmits electrical impulses by allowing charged particles to cross cell membranes in the presence of ATP, the ubiquitous energy - carrying molecule.

Along with potassium, they create a membrane potential, or electrochemical gradient, between cells; the resulting electrical charges carry nerve impulses, contract muscle cells and help regulate your heartbeat.

The inner ear includes not only the nerve endings that transform mechanical movement into electrical impulses and carry auditory messages to the brain, but it also includes the organ of balance.