Action potential energy efficiency varies among neuron types in vertebrates and invertebrates

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 35-

  Sengupta, Biswa ^a,b   Stemmler, Martin ^b   Laughlin, Simon B ^a   Niven, Jeremy E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MAMMALS; MOLLUSCS; NEURONS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; SHELLFISH;

'CURRENT; ACTION-POTENTIALS; ENERGETIC RESOURCES; ENERGY; ENERGY-CONSUMPTION; HIGH DEMAND; INITIATION AND PROPAGATION; MAMMALIAN NEURONS; NEURAL TISSUE; POTENTIAL FORCES;

ENERGY UTILIZATION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY COST; ENERGY TRANSFER; EXON; HODGKIN HUXLEY EQUATION; INTERNEURON; INVERTEBRATE; ION CURRENT; ION TRANSPORT; MOUSE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PREDICTION; RAT; SODIUM CURRENT; SODIUM TRANSPORT; SQUID; TEMPERATURE; VERTEBRATE; WAVEFORM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRACHYURA; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ENERGY METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

CEPHALOPODA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ENERGY METABOLISM; LOLIGO; MICE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; RATS; SODIUM CHANNELS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 78049258925     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000840     Document Type: Article

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