Tuning of Ranvier node and internode properties in myelinated axons to adjust action potential timing

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Ford, Marc C ^a,b   Alexandrova, Olga ^a   Cossell, Lee ^b   Stange Marten, Annette ^a   Sinclair, James ^a   Kopp Scheinpflug, Conny ^a   Pecka, Michael ^a   Attwell, David ^b   Grothe, Benedikt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYELIN;

ANATOMY; METABOLISM; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POLARIZATION; SIMULATION; SPECIALIZATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDUCTANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNODE; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; MALE; MERIONES UNGUICULATUS; MORPHOMETRICS; MYELINATION; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; RANVIER NODE; SIMULATION; SOUND; SOUND DETECTION; ANIMAL; AXON; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN STEM; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GERBIL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MYELIN SHEATH; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE CONDUCTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AXONS; BRAIN STEM; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GERBILLINAE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO TECHNIQUES; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RANVIER'S NODES; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 84940069142     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9073     Document Type: Article

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