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A quantitative description of membrane current and its application to conduction and excitation in nerve

A. L. Hodgkin, +1 more
- 28 Aug 1952 - 
- Vol. 117, Iss: 4, pp 500-544
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This article concludes a series of papers concerned with the flow of electric current through the surface membrane of a giant nerve fibre by putting them into mathematical form and showing that they will account for conduction and excitation in quantitative terms.
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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 Physiol116, 424–448; Hodgkin and Huxley, 1952,J Physiol116, 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)

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Potential, impedance, and rectification in membranes

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Currents carried by sodium and potassium ions through the membrane of the giant axon of Loligo

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Measurement of current-voltage relations in the membrane of the giant axon of Loligo.

TL;DR: The importance of ionic movements in excitable tissues has been emphasized by a number of recent experiments which are consistent with the theory that nervous conduction depends on a specific increase in permeability which allows sodium ions to move from the more concentrated solution outside a nerve fibre to the more dilute solution inside it.
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The dual effect of membrane potential on sodium conductance in the giant axon of Loligo

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