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SUBMITTER: Mussel M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6408356 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface 20190201 151
In an ongoing debate on the physical nature of the action potential (AP), one group adheres to the electrical model of Hodgkin and Huxley, while the other describes the AP as a nonlinear acoustic pulse propagating within an interface near a transition. However, despite remarkable similarities, acoustics remains a non-intuitive mechanism for APs for the following reason. While acoustic pulses are typically associated with the propagation of density, pressure and temperature variation, APs are mos ...[more]