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THE resting membrane potential of the frog Ranvier node shows fluctuations for which, between 1 and 10,000 rad/sec, the power/cycle of bandwidth is inversely proportional to frequency (1/f noise), and for frequencies of less than about 1 rad/sec there may be an increase in the negative slope of the plot of log noise power against log frequency1,2. This communication reports experiments on the amplitude distributions of the membrane noise voltage.
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VERVEEN, A., DERKSEN, H. & SCHICK, K. Voltage Fluctuations of Neural Membrane. Nature 216, 588–589 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/216588a0
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