negative regulation of membrane potential

id: GO:0045837
name: negative regulation of membrane potential
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: Any process that stops, prevents, or reduces the frequency, rate or extent of 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.

Child Functions

idname
GO:0010917negative regulation of mitochondrial membrane potential
GO:0090394negative regulation of excitatory postsynaptic membrane potential

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0042391regulation of membrane potential