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3 - The Electrochemical Potential of a Cell

from Part I - Physical Tools

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 December 2024

Thomas Andrew Waigh
Thomas Andrew Waigh
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University of Manchester
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Summary

Introduces Nernst potentials for bacterial cells, simple Hodgkin–Huxley models for action potentials and describes experimental methods to measure membrane potentials.

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Nernst potentialelectrochemicalspikesHodgkin–Huxley
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The Physics of Bacteria
From Cells to Biofilms
 , pp. 32 - 38
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Suggested Reading

Benarroch, J. M.; Asally, M. The microbiologists guide to membrane potential dynamics. Trends in Microbiology, 2020, 28 (4), 304. A very simple introduction to electrophysiological phenomena in bacteria.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
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Smith, G. C. Cellular Biophysics and Modelling: A Primer on the Computational Biology of Excitable Cells. Cambridge University Press: 2019. Reasonably straightforward account of cellular excitability.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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