Sentences with phrase «charged sodium ions»

When nerve cells receive a signal of pain or other sensation, the signal opens sodium channels and floods the cell with positively charged sodium ions, which positively charge the neurons until the electrochemistry changes enough to inactivate the channels and close them.

In this scenario, when an object moved in the neuron's preferred direction, excitatory impulses would reach the target neuron first, triggering positively charged sodium ions to flow into the cell — an excitatory current.

Most of these so - called «pacemaking neurons» utilize charged sodium ions to create their electrical impulses.

Not exact matches

«Half the calories a brain burns go towards simply keeping the structure intact by pumping sodium and potassium ions across membranes to maintain an electrical charge,» according to the video.

Bound to the cell membrane, Na ± K+ATP ase uses the energy of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) molecules to pump sodium out of the cell and potassium into the cell, maintaining a charge gradient that allows ions to flow through open channels.

When the neuron is stimulated, sodium ions rush into the cell and potassium ions rush out, leaving the neuron with a positive electrochemical charge.

But the native language of biology is positive: its building blocks are protons and positively charged ions such as potassium, sodium and calcium.

Scientists previously thought ions — charged particles such as sodium or chloride, which bond to make salt — got buried in bodies of water.

Sodium citrate comes in and replaces the calcium ions with sodium ions, which are less positively charged (sodium: +1; calciumSodium citrate comes in and replaces the calcium ions with sodium ions, which are less positively charged (sodium: +1; calciumsodium ions, which are less positively charged (sodium: +1; calciumsodium: +1; calcium: +2).

Charge - holding capacity was only marginally reduced for the saline - and cell - culture - based batteries, most likely because they had slightly lower sodium - ion content than the sodium sulfate solution.

The mechanism is produced by layers of electrically charged particles (ions of sodium and potassium) on either side of the nerve membrane that change places when stimulated.

Researchers have known for decades that some microorganisms, such as single - celled green algae, have proteins that respond to light by opening a channel in the microbe's membranes, allowing the passage of electrically charged ions (such as calcium and sodium).

(An example of this is table salt, made up of positively charged sodium and negatively charged chlorine ions).

TRPV4 is an ion channel, a gateway in the cell membrane that rapidly lets in positively charged ions such as calcium and sodium.

To balance the negative charge caused by the loss of positive hydrogen ions, sodium ions pass from the central saltwater chamber into the cathode chamber via another membrane.

Action potential When about 0.1 volt kicks in (1/100, 000 the strength of a static shock from a rug), negatively charged potassium rushes out of the cell, and positively charged sodium floods in at 100,000,000 ions per second.

Nerve cells use the movement of positively charged sodium and potassium ions across a membrane to create a chemical gradient that drives neural signals.

Nerve cells use the movement of positively charged sodium and potassium ions across a membrane to create an electrochemical gradient that drives neural signals.

Some of the electronic charge on the chloride ion (Cl --RRB- ends up on the water molecules in the first solvation shells around the chloride and sodium ions, with the waters around sodium being the most negative — the waters effectively act as an electronic sink.

For example, table salt, which is Sodium Chloride (NaCl), ionizes into two charged ions, specifically a sodium ion and a chloridSodium Chloride (NaCl), ionizes into two charged ions, specifically a sodium ion and a chloridsodium ion and a chloride ion.

And positively charged macro-minerals, like calcium, potassium, sodium and magnesium, will react with the negative OH - ion, to form (alkaline) calcium, potassium and magnesium hydroxides.

As an electrolyte, potassium is a positive charged ion that must maintain a certain concentration (about 30 times higher inside than outside your cells) in order to carry out its functions, which includes interacting with sodium to help control nerve impulse transmission, muscle contraction and heart function.