Scaling laws for myelinated axons derived from an electrotonic core-conductor model

Journal of Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 227-244

  Basser, Peter J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Axon; Cable; Equation; Homogenization; Model; Myelin; Scaling; Two space method

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONDUCTOR; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRONICS; EXPERIMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MYELIN SHEATH; MYELINATED NERVE; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; PUBLICATION; RANVIER NODE; VELOCITY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AXONS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRONICS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; RANVIER'S NODES;

EID: 4344648886     PISSN: 02196352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219635204000427     Document Type: Article

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