Effects of refractoriness on the statistics of the post-membrane output IPIs

Author

Hu, X.L. ; Zhang, Y.T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin, China

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

589

Abstract

Refractory period is an important factor that affects output inter-pulse intervals (LPIs) statistics at post-membrane position of a gap function. However this factor is seldom considered in analyses of the synaptic pulse train transmission. Based on the previous theoretical study, a general form of the p.d.f. of post-membrane output IPIs is obtained in this work. The exponential and Gaussian distributed input IPIs to the gap junction are used for verification, and the results show that the theoretical results are consistent with the simulated ones for the two cases studied

Keywords

Gaussian distribution; bioelectric potentials; biomembranes; neurophysiology; physiological models; statistics; Gaussian distributed input; gap function; neuronal membrane; neurophysiological modeling; output inter-pulse intervals; post-membrane; post-membrane output IPIs statistics; refractoriness effects; synaptic pulse train transmission analysis; Biological neural networks; Biological system modeling; Biomembranes; Electrodes; Probability; Random processes; Random variables; Signal processing; Statistical distributions; Statistics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2000. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6465-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2000.900812

Filename

900812