Behavior of solutions of the Hodgkin-Huxley equations and its relation to properties of mechanoreceptors.
The membrane current in the Hodgkin-Huxley equations is considered to be a stimulus to the membrane and the responses to the simulus are numerically calculated. Responses of the Hodgkin-Huxley model to an alternating current superimposed upon a constant bias current show qualitative analogy to responses of biological mechanoreceptors. The intensity of the bias current seems to correspond to the degree of adaptation of actual receptors.
Nemoto
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Faculty ofEngineering, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Miyazaki
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Saito
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Utsunomiya
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