Thermodynamics of the nervous impulse

Structure and Dynamics of Membranous Interfaces

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 317-339

  Heimburg, Thomas ^a   Jackson, Andrew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Biological membranes; Hodgkin Huxley model; Ion channels; Nervous impulse; Reversible physics; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 85101429538     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470388495.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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