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. 1968 Oct;8(10):1074-97.
doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(68)86540-3.

Sodium inactivation in nerve fibers

R C Hoyt

Sodium inactivation in nerve fibers

R C Hoyt. Biophys J. 1968 Oct.

Abstract

A number of models proposed to account for the sodium conductance changes are shown to fall into two classes. The Hodgkin-Huxley (HH) model falls into a class (I) in which the conductance depends on two or more independent variables controlled by independent processes. The Mullins, Hoyt, and Goldman models fall into class II in which conductance depends directly on one variable only, a variable which is controlled by two or more coupled processes. The HH and Hoyt models are used as specific examples of the two classes. It is shown that, contrary to a recently published report, the results from double experiments can be equally well accounted for by both models. It is also shown that steady-state conditioning, or "inactivation," curves, obtained at more than one test potential, can be used to distinguish the two models. The HH equations predict that such curves should be shifted, by very small amounts, in the hyperpolarizing direction when more depolarizing test potentials are used, while the Hoyt model predicts that they should be shifted in the depolarizing direction, by quite appreciable amounts. Several pieces of published experimental information are used as tests of these predictions, and give tentative support to the class II model. Further experiments are necessary before a definite conclusion can be reached.

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