title: Noise effects on spike propagation in the stochastic Hodgkin-Huxley models.
abstract: Effects of membrane current noise on spike propagation along a nerve fiber are studied. Additive current noise and channel noise are considered by using stochastic versions of the Hodgkin-Huxley model. The results of computer simulation show that the membrane noise causes considerable variation of the propagation time of a spike (thus changes in interspike intervals) for a small unmyelinated fiber of radius 0.1 approximately 1 micron.
authors.affiliation: Information and Computer Science Laboratory, Faculty of Education, Kagawa University, Takamatsu, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Horikawa
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003198:Computer Simulation; D008433:Mathematics; D008564:Membrane Potentials; D008838:Microcomputers; D008959:Models, Neurological; D009412:Nerve Fibers / Q000502:physiology*; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D013269:Stochastic Processes