The action potential and nervous conduction

Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 49-54

  Fry, Chris H ^a   Jabr, Rita I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action potential; conduction; excitability; ion channel; summation

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL; POTASSIUM ION; SODIUM ION;

CELL HYPOXIA; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL SIZE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HUMAN; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MYELIN SHEATH; MYELINATION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; REVIEW; SODIUM TRANSPORT; SPATIAL SUMMATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TEMPERATURE; TEMPORAL SUMMATION;

EID: 74949121605     PISSN: 02639319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mpsur.2009.12.001     Document Type: Review

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