equilibrium potential

biology
Also known as: Nernst potential

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function in nervous system

  • neuron; conduction of the action potential
    In nervous system: Ions

    …difference is then called the equilibrium potential. (It is also called the Nernst potential, after Walther Nernst, a German physical chemist who, in the late 19th century, developed equations for calculating the electrical potential at which there is no longer a net flux of a specific ion across a membrane.)

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