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WINDSOR UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

WINDSOR UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE . Bioelectrical Phenomena of the Cell-RMP and Action Potential. Dr.Vishal Surender.MD. Basic Concepts. Volt A charge difference between two points in space. Basic Concepts. Ions – charged particles Anions – Negatively charged particles

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  1. WINDSOR UNIVERSITYSCHOOL OF MEDICINE Bioelectrical Phenomena of the Cell-RMP and Action Potential. Dr.Vishal Surender.MD.

  2. Basic Concepts • Volt • A charge difference between two points in space

  3. Basic Concepts • Ions – charged particles • Anions – Negatively charged particles • Cations – Positively charged particles

  4. Basic ConceptsForces that determine ionic movement • Electrostatic forces • Opposite charges attract • Identical charges repel • Concentration forces • Diffusion – movement of ions through semipermeable membrane • Osmosis – movement of water from region of high concentration to low

  5. Selective Permeability of Membranes • Some ions permitted to cross more easily than others • Neuronal membranes contain ion channels • Protein tubes that span the membrane • Some stay open all the time (nongated) • Some open on the occasion of an action potential, causing a change in the permeability of the membrane (gated)

  6. I. Membrane Resting Potential • A constant potential difference across the resting cell membrane • Cell’s ability to fire an action potential is due to the cell’s ability to maintain the cellular resting potential at approximately –70 mV (-.07 volt) • The basic signaling properties of neurons are determined by changes in the resting potential

  7. Membrane Resting Potential • Every cell has a separation of electrical charge across its cell membrane. • The membrane potential results from a separation of positive and negative charges across the cell membrane.

  8. Membrane Resting Potential • excess of positive charges outside and negative charges inside the membrane • maintained because the lipid bilayer acts as a barrier to the diffusion of ions • gives rise to an electrical potential difference, which ranges from about 60 to 70 mV. • (Microelectrode)

  9. Concept of Resting Potential (RP) • A potential difference across the cell membrane at the resting stage or when the cell is not stimulated. • Property: • It is constant or stable • It is negative inside relative to the outside • Resting potentials are different in different cells.

  10. Resting Membrane Potential • Na+ and Cl- are more concentrated outside the cell • K+ and organic anions (organic acids and proteins) are more concentrated inside.

  11. Intracellular vs extracellular ion concentrations Ion Intracellular Extracellular Na+ 5-15 mM 145 mM K+ 140 mM 5 mM Mg2+ 0.5 mM 1-2 mM Ca2+ 10-7mM 1-2 mM H+ 10-7.2 M (pH 7.2) 10-7.4 M (pH 7.4) Cl- 5-15 mM 110 mM

  12. Resting Membrane Potential • Potassium ions, concentrated inside the cell tend to move outward down their concentration gradient through non gated potassium channels • But the relative excess of negative charge inside the membrane tend to push potassium ions back in to the cell

  13. Potassium equilibrium -90 mV

  14. Resting Membrane Potential Na+ is more concentrated outside than inside and therefore tends to flow into the cell down its concentration gradient Na+ is driven into the cell by the electrical potential difference across the membrane. • Electrostatic and Chemical forces act together on Na+ ions to drive them into the cell • The Na+ channel close during the resting state

  15. Na+ electrochemical gradient

  16. Equilibrium Potentials • The two major forces acting on ion movement are the concentration and electrical gradients across the membrane. • When these forces are equal but acting in opposite directions across a cell membrane for a particular ion the membrane potential is also the equilibrium potential for that ion. • Membrane potential that would exactly balance the diffusion gradient and prevent the net movement of a particular ion.

  17. Calculating equilibrium potential Nernst Equation • Allows theoretical membrane potential to be calculated for particular ion. • Value depends on the ratio of [ion] on the 2 sides of the membrane.

  18. Nernst equation Equilibrium potential (mV) , Eion = ln [C]o RT zF [C]i where, [C]o and [C]i = extra and intracellular [ion] R = Universal gas constant (8.3 joules.K-1.mol-1) T = Absolute temperature (°K) F = Faraday constant (96,500 coulombs.mol-1) z = Charge of ion (Na+ = +1, Ca2+ = +2, Cl- = -1) For K+, with [K+]o = 4 mmol.l-1 and [K+]i = 150 mmol.l-1 At 37°C, EK= -97mV ENa = +60mv

  19. Resting Membrane Potential • Resting membrane potential is less than Ek because some Na+ can also enter the cell. • The slow rate of Na+ influx is accompanied by slow rate of K+outflux. • Depends upon 2 factors: • Ratio of the concentrations of each ion on the 2 sides of the plasma membrane. • Specific permeability of membrane to each different ion. • Resting membrane potential of most cells ranges from - 65 to – 85 mV.

  20. The Sodium-Potassium Pump extrudes Na+ from the cell while taking in K • Dissipation of ionic gradients is ultimately prevented by Na+-K+ pumps

  21. Factors that affect resting potential • Difference of K+ ion concentration across the membrane • Due to the fact that the cell membrane at rest is much more permeable to K+ ions than Na+ ions the movement of K+ ions has a greater influence on the resting membrane potential. The resting membrane potential of the cell at rest in this case is -70mV. • Permeability of the membrane to Na+ and K+. • Action of Na+ pump

  22. Basic Electrophysiological Terms I: • Polarization: a state in which membrane is polarized at rest, negative inside and positive outside. • Depolarization: the membrane potential becomes less negative than the resting potential (close to zero). • Hyperpolarization: the membrane potential is more negative than the resting level.

  23. Basic Electrophysiological Terms I: • Reverspolarization: a reversal of membrane potential polarity. • The inside of a cell becomes positive relative to the outside. • Repolarization: restoration of normal polarization state of membrane. • a process in which the membrane potential returns toward from depolarized level to the normal resting membrane value.

  24. Action potential • Action potential is a rapid, reversible, and conductive change of the membrane potential after the cell is stimulated. • Nerve signals are transmitted by action potentials.

  25. II Action Potential • Successive Stages: • Resting Stage • Depolarization stage • Repolarization stage • After-potential stage (2) (3) (1) (4)

  26. Action Potential Sequence • Voltage-gated Na+ Channels open and Na+ rushes into the cell

  27. Action Potential Sequence • At about +30 mV, Sodium channels close, but now, voltage-gated potassium channels open, causing an outflow of potassium, down its electrochemical gradient

  28. Action Potential Sequence equilibrium potential of the cell is restored

  29. Action Potential Sequence • The Sodium – Potassium Pump is left to clean up the mess…

  30. Ion Permeability during the AP Figure 8-12: Refractory periods

  31. Basic Electrophysiological Terms II (1) • Excitability: The ability of the cell to generate the action potential • Excitable cells: Cells that generate action potential during excitation. • in excitable cells (muscle, nerve, secretery cells), the action potential is the marker of excitation. • Some scholars even suggest that in excitable cells, action potential is identical to the excitation.

  32. Basic Electrophysiological Terms II (2) • Stimulus: a sudden change of the (internal or external) environmental condition of the cell. • includes physical and chemical stimulus. • The electrical stimulus is often used for the physiological research. • Threshold (intensity): the lowest or minimal intensity of stimulus to elicit an action potential • (Three factors of the stimulation: intensity, duration, rate of intensity change)

  33. Basic Electrophysiological Terms II (3) • Types of stimulus: • Threshold stimulus: The stimulus with the intensity equal to threshold • Subthreshold stimulus: The stimulus with the intensity weaker than the threshold • Suprathreshold stimulus: The stimulus with the intensity greater than the threshold.

  34. Action Potential Summary • Reduction in membrane potential (depolarization) to "threshold" level leads to opening of Na+ channels, allowing Na+ to enter the cell • Interior becomes positive • The Na+ channels then close automatically followed by a period of inactivation. • K+ channels open, K+ leaves the cell and the interior again becomes negative. • Process lasts about 1/1000th of a second.

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