Horikawa Y
Information and Computer Science Laboratory, Faculty of Education, Kagawa University, Takamatsu, Japan.
Biophys J. 1993 Aug;65(2):680-6. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(93)81096-8.
Effects of membrane channel noise (random opening and closing of ion channels) are studied on spike conduction at a branching point on an axon. Computer simulation is done on the basis of a stochastic version of the Hodgkin-Huxley cable model, into which the channel noise is incorporated. It is shown that the channel noise makes conduction of spikes into daughter branches random; spikes randomly succeed or fail in conduction into daughter branches. The conduction is then randomly differential even though the forms and properties of daughter branches are the same. The randomness is considerable when the radius of an axon is small (approximately 1 microns).
研究了膜通道噪声(离子通道的随机开放和关闭)对轴突分支点处动作电位传导的影响。基于霍奇金-赫胥黎电缆模型的随机版本进行计算机模拟,并将通道噪声纳入其中。结果表明,通道噪声使动作电位向分支传导具有随机性;动作电位向分支传导时随机成功或失败。即使分支的形态和特性相同,传导也会随机出现差异。当轴突半径较小时(约1微米),随机性相当显著。