What are the factors that establish and maintain the resting membrance potential?

Question

What are the factors that establish and maintain the resting membrance potential?

Answer 1

1. This link has got enough details about factors.

Role down a little and read" resting membrane potetial.... " in this link.....

http://www.fiu.edu/~cuervol/Physiologica...

2. Wiki describes pretty well  and deals with the "the ionic factors" that contribute and mentain the potetial membrane

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Membrane_po...

3. This link has got some information about the establishment of resting potential membrane....................

(roll down a little below up to the headline titled ..."establishment............")

http://people.eku.edu/ritchisong/301note...

4.This link describes "what a resting membrane potential is and also about the BOUNDARY CONDITIONS.....(factors)

http://www.williams.edu/BIMO/liz/LEC2.ht...

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EXTRA for higher level studies !!!

This is a PDF  scientific article, though a little sofisticatd to read but seems to me that it can be as well useful to you

READ the frontdoor description.....

Generation of resting membrane potential -- Wright 28 (4): 139 ...  

... a minor player in establishing the resting membrane potential, there are several ... ion permeabilities serving as weighting factors that define the relative ...

http://advan.physiology.org/cgi/content/...