{"id":2149,"date":"2017-04-12T17:46:19","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T00:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/?p=2149"},"modified":"2017-04-12T17:46:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T00:46:19","slug":"sodium-potassium-pump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/2017\/04\/12\/sodium-potassium-pump\/","title":{"rendered":"Sodium-Potassium Pump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sodium-potassium pumps create and maintain electrochemical gradients, pumping potassium ions into the cell and sodium ions out of the cell. The established gradient is a crucial part of sending electrical nerve signals and regulating the osmotic pressure in cells.\u00a0When the axon of a nerve cell experiences a depolarization in membrane potential, sodium-potassium pumps are responsible for reestablishing the resting potential of the\u00a0membrane. This allows the axons of nerve cells to be prepared to transmit the next signal.<\/p>\n<p>Since sodium-potassium pumps are partially\u00a0responsible for the transmission of electrical nerve impulses,\u00a0one way to represent the protein would be\u00a0in such\u00a0a way\u00a0to resemble a lightning bolt. It might be unique to sculpt the protein with wire and small LED lights in the shape of lightning to represent one of its key functions. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/files\/2017\/04\/lightning-outline-filled.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2151 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/files\/2017\/04\/lightning-outline-filled.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/150\/files\/2017\/04\/lightning-outline-filled.png 256w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/150\/files\/2017\/04\/lightning-outline-filled-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/150\/files\/2017\/04\/lightning-outline-filled-120x120.png 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/files\/2017\/04\/Sodium-potassium-pump.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2150 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/files\/2017\/04\/Sodium-potassium-pump-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/150\/files\/2017\/04\/Sodium-potassium-pump-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/150\/files\/2017\/04\/Sodium-potassium-pump-400x573.jpg 400w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/150\/files\/2017\/04\/Sodium-potassium-pump.jpg 489w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sodium-potassium pumps create and maintain electrochemical gradients, pumping potassium ions into the cell and sodium ions out of the cell. The established gradient is a crucial part of sending electrical nerve signals and regulating the osmotic pressure in cells.\u00a0When the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/2017\/04\/12\/sodium-potassium-pump\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[840433,4797],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-posts","category-student-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2155,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions\/2155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}