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Using a very simple hypothesis concerning the length of the depolarized area during propagation of action potentials, distributions of latencies in bundles of myelinated axons have been derived. The internodal length, the number of nodes of Ranvier, the depolarized area and the variation in internodal length are the important parameters.
To demonstrate the applicability of the derivation proposed here some examples taken from neurophysiological experiments are given.
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Hille, M., van Rotterdam, A. Latency distributions in homogeneous bundles of myelinated axons. Biol. Cybern. 41, 235–238 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00340324
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00340324