references to spike initiators

[Bruce Raoul Parnas]

there have been several requests for references to the spike initiator models i mentioned
in a previous message, so, here they are:

One of the oldest models, and still used by many (including Macgregor) as the basis for
a great many models, is the system derived by A.V. Hill, the two-time-constant model:

A.V. Hill (1936), "Excitation and accomodation in nerve", Proc. Royal Soc., Series B,
119: 305-353.

The model of Frankenhaeuser and Dodge (actually it'd Dodge's model, modified by 
Frankenhaeuser and Huxley) was developed for the frog node of Ranvier:

Frankenhaeuser, B. and Huxley, A.F. (1964) "The action potential in the myelinated nerve
fiber of Xenopus Laevis as computed on the basis of voltage clamp data", J. Physiol.
171: 302-315.

(note:  the spelling may be either Frankenhaeuser or frankenhauser, depending on where
you look, the ae is used to indicate an a-umlaut in the German spelling).

And, of course, there is the HH model, presented in a series of papers:

Hodgkin, A.E. and Huxley, A.F. in J. Physiol., 1951 and 1952.

bruce
(brp at bandit.berkeley.edu)