Hv Physiology: Brain Damage

Posted by lettsscience on May 15, 2012 · Leave a Comment 

Thanks to the groundbreaking work of Hodgking and Huxley, the most well known physiological role of voltage-gated ion channels is the propagation of the action potential in neurons (Hodgkin & Huxley, 1952). What Hodgkin and Huxley demonstrated was that the action potential is generated by the sequential opening and closing of voltage-gated Na+ and K+ … Continue reading →

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