Shneider M N, Pekker M
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
Phys Biol. 2015 Nov 24;12(6):066009. doi: 10.1088/1478-3975/12/6/066009.
A possible mechanism for the synchronization of action potential propagation along a bundle of neurons (ephaptic coupling) is considered. It is shown that this mechanism is similar to the salutatory conduction of the action potential between the nodes of Ranvier in myelinated axons. The proposed model allows us to estimate the scale of the correlation, i.e., the distance between neurons in the nervous tissue, wherein their synchronization becomes possible. The possibility for experimental verification of the proposed model of synchronization is discussed.
本文考虑了一种沿神经元束同步动作电位传播的可能机制（电突触耦合）。结果表明，该机制类似于有髓轴突中朗飞氏结之间动作电位的跳跃传导。所提出的模型使我们能够估计相关性的尺度，即神经组织中神经元之间的距离，在这个距离内它们的同步成为可能。本文还讨论了对所提出的同步模型进行实验验证的可能性。
