The sodium-potassium pump is an information processing element in brain computation
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The sodium-potassium pump is an information processing element in brain computation
Brain neurons can transmit signals using a flow of Na+ and K+ ions, which produce an electrical spike called an action potential (AP) (Hodgkin and Huxley, 1952). After an AP, the Na+/K+ pump resets the arrangement of Na+ and K+ ions back to their original positions so that the neuron is then ready to relay another AP when it is called upon to do so (Glitsch, 2001). So, the Na+/K+ pump has a “ho...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Physiology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1664-042X
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2014.00472