The emergence of the deterministic Hodgkin-huxley equations as a limit from the underlying stochastic ion-channel mechanism

Annals of Applied Probability

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1279-1325

  Austin, Tim D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Action potential; Convergence of Markov processes; Hodgkin Huxley equations; Nonlinear parabolic PDE; Stochastic Hodgkin Huxley equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 52949122900     PISSN: 10505164     EISSN: 10505164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/07-AAP494     Document Type: Article

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