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Now, you have high sodium inside or higher than before
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because sodium can leak through these channels,
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but you have on this other surface of the cell,
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you have a lot of these sodium potassium pumps.
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These sodium potassium pumps are constantly pumping sodium out
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and bringing potassium, sodium out, potassium in and there's pumps here,
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there's pumps here, there's pumps here.
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So, any molecules of sodium that enter this side
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get efficiently pumped out through the other side.
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The net effect of these two processes,
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diffusion on this boundary and active transport on this boundary,
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is that sodium molecules move from inside the tube to outside the tube.