[Thixotropic effect and electro-osmosis as possible factors of membrane electrical excitability].
Cation motion under the electrical field might break the membrane structure. In the temporary wake of each cation conductivity would be increased. Thus a zone of negative resistance would occur in the intensity-voltage relation. Membrane dehydration, due to electro-osmosis, might induce repeated flip-flops of current at the limits of the negative resistance zone.
D000200:Action Potentials; D055592:Biophysical Phenomena; D001703:Biophysics; D004594:Electrophysiology; D008566:Membranes / Q000502:physiology*; D008567:Membranes, Artificial; D009995:Osmosis
D008567:Membranes, Artificial
Effet thixotropique et électro-osmose comme facteurs possibles de l'excitabilité électrique des membranes.