The problem of nonstationary ion fluxes in excitable membranes

✍ Scribed by L. Kramer

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1976
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 503 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1432-1017
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00535369

✦ Synopsis

Time-dependent electrodiffusion through a membrane is analysed within a simple model treating the boundary-layers in a consistent manner. It is shown that time-independent reversal potentials for the ion fluxes exist only under steady-state conditions. We argue that this result holds very generally. Therefore nonstationary effect like ion storage and depletion inside the membrane should not contribute to the phenomena of excitability.