One thousand Ca 2+ channels open in the plasma membrane of a cell that is 1000 m
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One thousand Ca2+ channels open in the plasma membrane of a cell that is 1000 μm3 in size and has a cytosolic Ca2+ concentration of 100 nM. For how long would the channels need to stay open in order for the cytosolic Ca2+ concentration to rise to 5 μM? There is virtually unlimited Ca2+ available in the outside medium (the extracellular Ca2+ concentration in which most animal cells live is a few millimolar), and each channel passes 106 Ca2+ ions per second.
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Essential Cell Biology
ISBN: 9780393680362
5th Edition
Authors: Bruce Alberts, Karen Hopkin, Alexander Johnson, David Morgan, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, Peter Walter
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