Bioelectricity
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The official GTU curriculum for Bioelectricity (subject code ME01031021) as prescribed for BE · Semester 1 divides the course into 5 units, covering 26 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (ME01031021)Unit 1 Action potential of excitable cells
- Resting membrane potential
- Nernst equation
- Goldman-Hodgkin- Katz equation
- Electrochemical driving force
- Sodium pump
- Hodgkin-Huxley model
- significance of parameters in Hodgkin- Huxley equations
- Factors determining the initiation
- amplitudes, and kinetic properties of action potentials
Unit 2 Voltage clamp and Ion channel modeling
- Voltage-clamp experiments: design, and analysis of results
- Modeling the Potassium channel conductance
- Modeling the Sodium channel conductance
- Current-voltage curves for voltage- gated ion channels: generation and analysis
- Calcium channel I-V curves
Unit 3 Passive membrane electrical properties
- Cellular resistance
- time constant and space constant
- methods of measurement
- Importance in cellular excitation and signaling: Impulse propagation
Unit 4 Electrophysiology of synaptic transmission
- Pre junctional and post junctional electrical events
- time courses of transmitter-activated membrane currents and potentials in skeletal and smooth muscle
- Electrical models of the skeletal and smooth muscle membranes
Unit 5 Electrodes as bioelectric transducers
- The electrode-electrolyte interface
- Specifications and selection criteria for electrodes
- implanted electrodes
- Polarizable and non-polarizable electrodes
- Practical Considerations
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