The concentrations of ions are very different inside and outside a nerve cell due to C. sodium-potassium pump
The process of active transport makes the concentration of sodium and chloride ions lower in a cell. The concentration of sodium ions is more outside of a cell.
As a membrane is more permeable to potassium ions hence a cell has a greater concentration of potassium ions as compared to the outside of the cell.
This differentiation of ions causes a membrane potential to occur due to the concentration gradient. The sodium-potassium pump is a protein that regulates the concentration of potassium to be more inside a cell that the outside. It also regulates that the concentration of sodium ions is less inside a cell.
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