Potassium Buffering Refers to

question 57

Multiple Choice

Potassium buffering refers to

• A) ensuring enough potassium is available to allow an action potential
• B) glial cells removing potassium from areas of high neuronal activity
• C) microglia engulfing potassium as part of the innate immune response
• D) all of the above

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Definitions:

Dependent Variable

A variable in an experiment or study that is expected to change in response to changes in another variable, the independent variable.

Independent Variables

Variables in an experiment or regression which are manipulated or categorized to determine their effect on dependent variables.

Degrees of Freedom

Refers to the number of independent values or quantities which can be assigned to a statistical distribution.

Critical Value

A point on the scale of the test statistic beyond which we reject the null hypothesis, representing a threshold chosen to determine the significance of the test statistic.