Conduction velocity and gating current in the squid giant axon
- 29 April 1975
- journal article
- Published by The Royal Society in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. B. Biological Sciences
- Vol. 189 (1094) , 81-86
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1975.0043
Abstract
As predicted by Hodgkin (1975), calculation of conduction velocities in squid giant axons shows that if each sodium channel is gated by charged particles moving in the membrane field there will be a maximum in the relation between sodium conductance and conduction velocity.Keywords
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