Ion Channels
It's a type of channel that opens in reaction to a change in charge within or without the cell.
What is Voltage-Gated Channels?
The balance of ions in and out of the cell
What is the Membrane Potential/Equilibrium Potential?
The equation for finding the membrane potential of a specific ion
What is the Nernst equation?
The type of ion that Sodium-Potassium pumps bring into the cell
The structure that allows ions to pass through the cell membrane
What is ion channels?
It's a type of channel that opens in reaction to a specific molecule binds to its proper place on the channel
What is Ligand-Gated Channels?
The measurement used for the equilibrium potential
What is millivolts?
The name for the equation that is the derivative of the Nernst equation
The term for when ATP binds to the channel and leaves a phosphate
What is Phosphorylation?
The state of being even in concentration or charge
What is equilibrium?
It's the process by which ion channels open and change shape
What is Conformation?
The driving force that causes the concentration of ions and their charges to balance out on either side of a membrane
The inventor of the equation to find the equilibrium potential of a given ion (full name)
Who is Walter Herman Nernst?
The type of channel that a Sodium-Potassium pump is
What is a Ligand-gated channel?
The type of transport that happens without energy/input from the cell
What is passive transport?
A channel that constantly causes cells to leak positively charged potassium ions
What is Potassium Leak Channels?
The driving force that causes the concentration of atoms to balance out on either side of a membrane
What is Chemical Driving Force?
The resulting value indicating a standard cell potential from the Nernst equation
What is 1?
The dephosphorylated version of the molecule that is required to open sodium-potassium pumps
What is Adenosinediphosphate?
The name of the membrane around living cells
What is the phospholipid bilayer?