Coding of odor intensity in a steady-state deterministic model of an olfactory receptor neuron

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 51-72

  Rospars, Jean Pierre ^a   Lánský, Petr ^b   Tuckwell, Henry C ^a,c   Vermeulen, Arthur ^a,d  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d GRENOBLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

Author keywords

Cable equation; Sensory coding; Single neuron modeling

Indexed keywords

CABLES; CODES (SYMBOLS); GEOMETRY; ODORS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

CABLE EQUATION; DETERMINISTIC MODELING; DYNAMIC RANGE; NEURON MODELING; ODOUR CONCENTRATIONS; ODOUR INTENSITY; OLFACTORY RECEPTORS; SENSORY CODING; SINGLE-NEURON MODELS; STEADY STATE;

NEURONS;

ARTICLE; DENDRITE; DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICHAELIS MENTEN KINETICS; NERVE CELL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; ODOR; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR POTENTIAL; SENSORY NERVE; STEADY STATE;

EID: 0029936584     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00158337     Document Type: Article

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