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. 2019 Feb 27;8:2164956119831221. doi: 10.1177/2164956119831221

Figure 1.

Figure 1.

A healthy cell has a membrane potential of approximately 70 mV, meaning that the potential inside the cell is 70 mV less than the potential outside due to a layer of negative charge on the inner surface of the cell wall and a layer of positive charge on the outer surface. This effectively makes the cell wall a charged capacitor.32