Further Reading

Aidley DJ. The Physiology of Excitable Cells, 4th ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998; Chapter 4.

Byrne JH, Schultz SG. An Introduction to Membrane Transport and Bioelectricity, 2nd ed. New York: Raven Press, 1994; Chapter 10.

Hodgkin AL. The Conduction of the Nervous Impulse. Springfield: Charles C. Thomas, 1984.

Huxley AF, Stampfli R. Evidence for saltatory conduction in peripheral myelinated nerve-fibres. J Physiol 1949;108:315.

Huxley AF, Stampfli R. Saltatory transmission of the nervous impulse. Arch Sci Physiol 1949;3:435.

Jack JJB, Nobel D, Tsien RW. Electric Current Flow in Excitable Cells. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.

Nicholls JG, Martin AR, Wallace BG. From Neurons to Brain, 3rd ed. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates, 1992; Chapter 5.

Rushton WAH. A theory of the effects of fibre size in medullated nerve. J Physiol 1951;115:101.

Shepherd, GM. Electronic properties of axons and dendrites, In Zigmond MJ, Bloom FE, Landis SC, Roberts JL, Squire LR, eds. Fundamental Neuroscience. San Diego: Academic Press, 1998;107-127.

Shepherd GM. The Synaptic Organization of the Brain. 4th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Tasaki I. Conduction of the nerve impulse. Handbook of physiology. Section 1: Neurophysiology. Vol 1. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1959;75.

 

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