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Computer simulation of a relatively simple model can reproduce the main characteristics of the firing patters of some nerve cells. The abdominal stretch receptor of the crayfish has provided an analogous biological model. Synaptic input impulses were simulated by randomly distributed, short lasting transmembrane current pulses. Under these experimental conditions the stretch receptor neurone largely behaved as predicted by the computer simulations.
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Enger, P.S., Jansen, J.K.S. & Walløe, L. A biological model of the excitation of a second order sensory neurone. Kybernetik 6, 141–145 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00274107
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00274107