How is information transmitted in a nerve?

Autor: Peyrard, Michel
Rok vydání: 2020
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1007/s10867-020-09557-2
Popis: In the last fifteen years a debate emerged about the validity of the famous Hodgkin-Huxley model for nerve impulse. Mechanical models have been proposed. This note reviews the experimental properties of the nerve impulse and discusses the proposed alternatives. The experimental data, which rule out some of the alternative suggestions, show that, while the Hodgkin-Huxley model may not be complete, it nevertheless includes essential features that should not be overlooked in the attempts made to improve, or supersede, it.
Comment: Revised version, accepted for publication in the Journal of Biological Physics, 2020
Databáze: arXiv