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short-circuit current: a standalone construct

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Physiology

the current needed to hold the voltage across an epithelium at zero, equal to the net active ion transport across it.

In physiology, short-circuit current refers to the current needed to hold the voltage across an epithelium at zero, equal to the net active ion transport across it. This meaning comes from Ussing (1951) in Acta Physiologica Scandinavica.[1]

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References

Ussing, H. H., & Zerahn, K. (1951). Active Transport of Sodium as the Source of Electric Current in the Short‐circuited Isolated Frog Skin. Acta Physiologica Scandinavica, 23(2-3), 110-127. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-1716.1951.tb00800.x

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