The "Lillie Transition": Models of the onset of saltatory conduction in myelinating axons

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 533-546

  Young, Robert G ^a,b   Castelfranco, Ann M ^a   Hartline, Daniel K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Axon; Computational modeling; Conduction velocity; Evolution; Myelin; Nodes of Ranvier

Indexed keywords

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS; NEURONS;

AXON; AXON DIAMETERS; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; CONDUCTION VELOCITY; EVOLUTION; MYELIN; NERVE IMPULSE PROPAGATION; NODE OF RANVIER; TRANSITION MODEL; WIDE GAP;

CELL MEMBRANES;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; HODGKIN HUXLEY EQUATION; MYELIN SHEATH; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONMYELINATED NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANVIER NODE;

EID: 84877729780     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: 15736873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10827-012-0435-3     Document Type: Article

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