| This leads to an increase in the permeability of the cell membrane to chloride ions with hyperpolarization of the nerve or muscle cell, resulting in paralysis and death of the parasite. |
| Bending the cilia in one direction causes the cell membrane to depolarize, while hyperpolarization is induced by movement in the opposite direction. |
| This channel closes with depolarization and opens with hyperpolarization. |
| The former leads to an increase in cyclic adenosine monophosphate and the latter to hyperpolarization, both of which result in relaxation. |
| Although GABA causes an increased Cl− conductance at these terminals, the result is depolarization, not hyperpolarization, of the membrane. |
| Any change in membrane potential tending to make the inside even more negative is called hyperpolarization, while any change tending to make it less negative is called depolarization. |
