NEUROFIT: Software for fitting Hodgkin-Huxley models to voltage-clamp data

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 139-150

  Willms, Allan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Computer software; Hodgkin Huxley model fitting; Inactivating current; Voltage clamp data

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONDUCTANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC FISH; HODGKIN HUXLEY EQUATION; LOBSTER; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SODIUM CURRENT; STEADY STATE; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ION CHANNELS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PALINURIDAE; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037114731     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(02)00227-3     Document Type: Article

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