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If you experimentally increase the concentration of K⁺ inside a cell while maintaining other ion concentrations as they were, what would happen to the cell's membrane potential? A. The membrane potential would become more negative. B. The membrane potential would become less negative. C. The membrane potential would remain the same. D. The membrane potential would first become more negative and then less negative.

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A resting (non-signaling) neuron has a voltage across its membrane called the resting membrane potential or simply the resting potential. The resting potential is determined by the concentration gradient of ions across the membrane and the permeability of the membrane to each type of ion.

If K+ permeability continues, the membrane potential will never reach its ideal value (sodium equilibrium potential) because diffusion of K+ ions makes the cell negative. The membrane potential of a resting neuron is primarily determined by the movement of K+ ions across the membrane. So let's get a feel for how membrane potential works by seeing what would happen if only K+ could cross the membrane.

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