Question

explain about the active transport of ions by Na + and k+ pumps against resting membrane potential which occurs across membrane of axon.

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Answer 1

Answer:Active transport: the sodium-potassium pump

Since the plasma membrane of the neuron is highly permeable to K+ and slightly permeable to Na+, and since neither of these ions is in a state of equilibrium (Na+ being at higher concentration outside the cell than inside and K+ at higher concentration inside the cell), then a natural occurrence should be the diffusion of both ions down their electrochemical gradients—K+ out of the cell and Na+ into the cell. However, the concentrations of these ions are maintained at constant disequilibrium, indicating that there is a compensatory mechanismmoving Na+ outward against its concentration gradient and K+ inward. This mechanism is the sodium-potassium pump. Actually a large protein molecule that traverses the plasma membrane of the neuron, the pump presents receptor areas to both the cytoplasm and the extracellular environment. That part of the molecule facing the cytoplasm has a high affinity for Na+ and a low affinity for K+, while that part facing the outside has a high affinity for K+ and a low affinity for Na+. Stimulated by the action of the ions on its receptors, the pump transports them in opposite directions against their concentration gradiants

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