Accession Number:
AD0637033
Title:
ON THE PROPAGATION OF THE NERVOUS IMPULSE DOWN MEDULLATED AND UNMEDULLATED FIBERS.
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Corporate Author:
RESEARCH LAB OF ELECTRONICS MASS INST OF TECH CAMBRIDGE
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Report Date:
1965-05-26
Pagination or Media Count:
17.0
Abstract:
The medullated fiber is represented by a distributed active circuit and an expression involving theseveral ionic conductances is obtained for the voltage variation at a node an heuristic argument is offered to show that this voltage cannot in general be described by an ordinary, linear, second-order differential equation even if the ionic conductances are specifically known as functions of time. It is also shown that the conduction velocity of a class of unmyelinated fibers can be approximated by a simple algebraic function of the fibers parameters. Author
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Subject Categories:
- Anatomy and Physiology