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What is a cell membrane?

What is a cell membrane? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (cytology) The semipermeable membrane that surrounds the cytoplasm of a cell.
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Polarization or depolarization of the membrane voltage opens the gate subunits and permits a flood of calcium ions through the cell membrane.
The peptides can be linked to a large protein or an oligonucleotide, which may then be carried through the cell membrane.
Action potentials are elicited when tiny pores in the nerve cell membrane, known as sodium channels, open up in response to a stimulus.
This may be true, but chemically the cyanide will adsorb onto a cell membrane increasing the electron donor or antioxidant capacity of the cell.
The insertion of the fusion peptide in the host membrane provides the necessary link between the viral envelope and the cell membrane.
The infection of a cell by a virus is a complicated multistage process during which the virus penetrates the host cell membrane.

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