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that exist in the membrane around you
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and they go from the closed state to the open state.
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In response to this small disturbance,
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some new channels open,
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these happen to be sodium channels.
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They open, a lot of them open because there's a lot of them on your cell
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because your cell is designed
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to respond to voltages so it has a lot of these kinds of channels.
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Now,what happens when all these new sodium channels open?
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There's a rush of sodium from outside the cell to inside the cell.
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Sodium's positively charged,
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you get a rush of current going by you,