A quantitative description of membrane current and its application to conduction and excitation in nerve
The Journal of PhysiologyPublished 28 August 1952Open access
A. L. Hodgkin, A. F. Huxley
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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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