Maintenance of appropriate ion concentrations (especially after nerve impulses that involved ion diffusion) is primarily the job of

A. sodium-potassium pumps.
B. mechanically gated channels.
C. voltage-gated channels.
D. chemically gated channels.


Answer: A

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