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The process in which membrane potential changes in the hyperpolarizing direction from the resting potential, usually from negative to more negative. Any process that modulates the establishment or extent of the inhibitory postsynaptic potential (IPSP) which is a temporay decrease in postsynaptic potential due to the flow of negatively charged ions into the postsynaptic cell. The flow of ions that causes an IPSP is an inhibitory postsynaptic current (IPSC) and makes it more difficult for the neuron to fire an action potential. Any process that modulates the establishment or extent of a membrane potential, the electric potential existing across any membrane arising from charges in the membrane itself and from the charges present in the media on either side of the membrane. Any process involved in the maintenance of an internal steady-state of ions at the level of a cell.

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GO TERM SUMMARY
Name: membrane hyperpolarization
Acc: GO:0060081
Aspect: Biological Process
Desc: The process in which membrane potential changes in the hyperpolarizing direction from the resting potential, usually from negative to more negative.
Proteins in PDR annotated with:
   This term: 8 [Search]
   Term or descendants: 25 [Search]


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INTERACTIVE GO GRAPH

GO:0060081 - membrane hyperpolarization (interactive image map)
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