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You Are Conducting an Experiment Recording the Membrane Potential of the Squid

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You are conducting an experiment recording the membrane potential of the squid giant axon. You decide to increase the extracellular concentration of potassium from 10 mM to 30 mM, and then to 200mM. What is the effect on the membrane potential in each case? How do these results compare to the values you would expect from the Nernst equation? Why?


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