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The Origin of Electrical Potential in Biological Systems

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Abstract

Electrical potential of biological systems orginates from various sources such as the existence of free ions in the biological systems, ionized molecular groups or electrical polarization of biomolecules, and various forms of assembly of biomolecules possessing such ionized molecular groups or electrically polarized or polarizable molecular groups. Another source of electrical potential may come from the occurrence of electron-transfer reactions in certain biochemical reaction systems. In certain biological systems, chemoelectrical, mechanoelectrical, and thermoelectrical coupling processes may produce a special type of electrical potential. Nonpolar molecules may exert electrical forces on each other by way of instantaneously fluctuating electrical polarization within the molecules.

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