{"id":228809,"date":"2026-01-11T09:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T15:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/cell-biology-glossary-sodium-potassium-pump"},"modified":"2026-01-11T09:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T15:13:15","slug":"cell-biology-glossary-sodium-potassium-pump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/cell-biology-glossary-sodium-potassium-pump","title":{"rendered":"Cell Biology Glossary: Sodium-Potassium Pump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cell-biology-glossary-sodium-potassium-pump2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SODIUM\/POTASSIUM PUMP \u2022 Found in the membrane of all animal cells \u2022 Active transport \u2014 uses ATP (around 30% of a cell\u2019s total ATP usage) breaking it down to ADP and phosphate \u2022 Helps maintain membrane voltage (thought to contribute about 10% of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SODIUM\/POTASSIUM PUMP \u2022 Found in the membrane of all animal cells \u2022 Active transport \u2014 uses ATP (around 30% of a cell\u2019s total ATP usage) breaking it down to ADP and phosphate \u2022 Helps maintain membrane voltage (thought to contribute about 10% of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}