A health care provider prepares to perform a rectal examination on a 40-year-old Middle Eastern man with a complaint of new abdominal pain.  To reduce the risk of violating a cultural prohibition, the provider should:

What would be the impact on resting membrane potential (RMP) in a patient with increased extracellular potassium ion levels (hyperkalemia)?

The membrane will depolarize when

The electrical component of the electrochemical gradient favors…

Compared to the outside of the cell, the area just inside the cell is…

The chemical component of the electrochemical gradient favors…

How does the sodium-potassium ion pump contribute to the resting membrane potential?

All of the following contribute to the formation of the resting membrane potential EXCEPT: 

When listeners or readers practice collaborative rhetoric, they “[commit] to listening to others’ views for the purpose of simply understanding other perspectives” (Ramage, et al. 192). According to PIE body paragraph construction, the author names are listed in the signal phrase or in the parenthetical citation. This is logical because the reader would not need author names repeated in the sentence.

Which of the following avoids a run-on sentence error?