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Effects of membrane current noise on spike propagation along a nerve fiber are studied. Additive current noise and channel noise are considered by using stochastic versions of the Hodgkin-Huxley model. The results of computer simulation show that the membrane noise causes considerable variation of the propagation time of a spike (thus changes in interspike intervals) for a small unmyelinated fiber of radius 0.1∼1 μm.
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Horikawa, Y. Noise effects on spike propagation in the stochastic Hodgkin-Huxley models. Biol. Cybern. 66, 19–25 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00196449
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