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A quantitative description of membrane current and its application to conduction and excitation in nerve
Author(s) -
Hodgkin A. L.,
Huxley A. F.
Publication year - 1952
Publication title -
the journal of physiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.802
H-Index - 240
eISSN - 1469-7793
pISSN - 0022-3751
DOI - 10.1113/jphysiol.1952.sp004764
Subject(s) - current (fluid) , content (measure theory) , excitation , neuroscience , thermal conduction , computer science , chemistry , information retrieval , physics , psychology , mathematics , thermodynamics , mathematical analysis , quantum mechanics
This article concludes a series of papers concerned with the flow of electric current through the surface membrane of a giant nerve fibre (Hodgkinet al., 1952,J. Physiol.116, 424–448; Hodgkin and Huxley, 1952,J. Physiol.116, 449–566). Its general object is to discuss the results of the preceding papers (Section 1), to put them into mathematical form (Section 2) and to show that they will account for conduction and excitation in quantitative terms (Sections 3–6).