Metabolic energy cost of action potential velocity

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1237-1246

  Crotty, Patrick ^a   Sangrey, Thomas ^c   Levy, William B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ENERGY; HYPERPOLARIZATION; NERVE FIBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AXONS; DECAPODIFORMES; ENERGY METABOLISM; KINETICS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NITRIC OXIDE DONORS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; S-NITROSO-N-ACETYLPENICILLAMINE; SODIUM CHANNELS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 33748607999     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01204.2005     Document Type: Article

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