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Then,there are these pores that when they exist and when they're open,
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are letting these molecules to leak back the other way.
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The pump always has to be operating
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because the leak is always happening.
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Does that make sense?
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Because you have these differences in ion concentrations
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across the cell membrane these--
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and you have the flux of molecules continuously across the membrane.
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What I've shown here are channels that are--
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they have a lid on them so they're sometimes open and sometimes closed,
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they can be both opened and closed.
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Every cell in your body at a given time is going to