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Chapter 2 Voltage Gated Ionic Currents
Christopher P. Fall and Joel E. Keizer

2.1 Basis of the Ionic Battery
2.1.1 The Nernst potential: charge balances concentration
2.1.2 The resting membrane potential
2.2 The membrane model
2.2.1 Equations for membrane electrical behavior
2.3 Activation and inactivation gates
2.3.1 Models of voltage-dependent gating
2.3.2 The voltage clamp
2.4 Interacting ion channels: the Morris-Lecar model
2.4.1 Phase plane analysis
2.4.2 Stability analysis
2.4.3 Why do oscillations occur?
2.4.4 Excitability and action potentials
2.4.1 Type I and type II spiking
2.5 The Hodgkin Huxley model
2.6 FitzHugh-Nagumo class models
2.7 Summary
2.8 Exercises
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