A distributed-parameter model of the myelinated human motor nerve fibre: Temporal and spatial distributions of electrotonic potentials and ionic currents

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 543-547

  Stephanova, D I ^a   Bostock, H ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; HUMAN; MOTONEURON; MYELIN SHEATH; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE FIBER; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AXONS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED;

EID: 0030160760     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00209425     Document Type: Article

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