Translations:Axon/3/en
From Eyewire
Because of it's large size, typically about .5 mm in diameter, early neuroscientists were able to study it easier than many other axons, because axons are generally much smaller. in 1952, Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley used the squid giant axon to understand the ionic mechanisms that propagate action potentials. [1]
- ↑ Hodgkin, A. L., Huxley, A. F., Katz, B., (1952) Measurement of Current-Voltage Relations in the Membrane of the Giant Axon of Loligo J. Physiol. 116, 424-448
