Modelled temperature-dependent excitability behaviour of a generalised human peripheral sensory nerve fibre

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 115-130

  Smit, Jacoba E ^a,b   Hanekom, Tania ^a   Hanekom, Johan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Chronaxie; Computational nerve fibre model; Conduction velocity; Persistent sodium current; Refractory periods

Indexed keywords

CHRONAXIE; COMPUTATIONAL NERVE FIBRE MODEL; CONDUCTION VELOCITY; PERSISTENT SODIUM CURRENT; REFRACTORY PERIODS;

ABERRATIONS; MATLAB; REFRACTORY MATERIALS; SODIUM; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

FIBERS;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY TEMPERATURE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; RANVIER NODE; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY RECEPTOR; TEMPERATURE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; BODY TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE FIBERS; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; RANVIER'S NODES; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 68949212854     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: 14320770     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00422-009-0324-7     Document Type: Article

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