Model Status
This version has had a stimulus protocol component added to allow the model to simulate multiple action potentials, has been unit checked and curated and is known to run in COR and PCEnv.
Model Structure
In a series of papers published in 1952, A.L. Hodgkin and A.F. Huxley presented the results of a series of experiments in which they investigated the flow of electric current through the surface membrane of the giant nerve fibre of a squid. In the summary paper of the Hodgkin and Huxley model, the authors developed a mathematical description of the behaviour of the membrane based upon these experiments, which accounts for the conduction and excitation of the fibre. The form of this description has been used as the basis for almost all other ionic current models of excitable tissues, including Purkinje fibres and cardiac atrial and ventricular muscle.
The summary paper is cited below:
A Quantitative Description of Membrane Current and its Application to Conduction and Excitation in Nerve, A. L. Hodgkin and A. F. Huxley, 1952, The Journal of Physiology, 117, 500-544.
PubMed ID: 12991237
Electrical circuit describing the current across the cell membrane
A schematic cell diagram describing the current flows across the cell membrane that are captured in the Hodgkin Huxley model.
Neuron
giant axon
electrophysiology
A
Hodgkin
L
Added more metadata.
The University of Auckland, Bioengineering Institute
Correcting the equation for dv/dt.
2002-11-20
This version (07) has had a stimulus protocol component added (to version 06, by James Lawson, 15/06/07) to allow the model to simulate multiple action potentials. Version 05 was created by Penny Noble of Oxford University and is known to run in COR and PCEnv. The intial voltage membrane potential was changed from 0 mV to the correct value of -75 mV. (Version 06 is the same as version 05 but has updated documentation)
Neuron
The Classic Hodgkin-Huxley 1952 Model of A Squid Axon.
Squid
12991237
12991237
1952-01-01
2007-06-14T07:38:16+12:00
c.lloyd@auckland.ac.nz
Added stimulus protocol to allow simulation of trains of action potentials. The stimulus amplitude (20 microamperes per cm2) and duration (0.5 ms) were taken from the single stimulus in the previous version. Set a period of 200 ms (arbitrary) to allow visualisation of 3 action potentials together at a resonable zoom level.
keyword
2007-06-15T12:32:55+12:00
The University of Auckland
The Bioengineering Institute
James
Lawson
Richard
Catherine
Lloyd
May
2002-11-20
Journal of Physiology
2002-07-19
James Lawson
Catherine
Lloyd
May
Catherine
Lloyd
May
Correcting the equation for dv/dt.
Warren Hedley
Fixed the broken figure links.
A quantitative description of membrane current and its application to conductance and excitation in nerve
117
500
544
2007-06-15T12:32:55+12:00
2007-06-20T16:01:50+12:00
David
Nickerson
A
Huxley
F
750
50000
0.01
2002-03-26T00:00:00+00:00
This is the CellML description of Hodgkin and Huxley's inspirational work on a mathematical description of currents through the membrane of a nerve fibre (axon) in a giant squid, and their application to the modelling of excitation in the nerve. It is generally regarded as the first example of a mathematical model of biology.
David
Nickerson