Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Action Potential Animation

http://outreach.mcb.harvard.edu/animations/actionpotential.swf

This interactive animation on action potential explains different stages of action potential in terms of sodium and potassium ions movement across the membrane through sodium channel, potassium channel and a Na+/K+ pump.

2 comments:

Neal K said...

very interactive, nice. you can open close gates and see the response

ari finkel said...

Great animation. Not so surprising considering the fact that Harvard produced. They probably have enough money to pay someone to put this thing together.