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ReviewJournal of biological physics2020

How is information transmitted in a nerve?

Michel Peyrard

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Review in Journal of biological physics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. On hyperbolicity for nerve pulse propagation in axons.Journal of computational neuroscience · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Michel PeyrardLaboratoire de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, 69364 Cédex 07, Lyon, France. Michel.Peyrard@ens-lyon.fr.ORCID 0000-0002-4047-1363

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the last 15 years, a debate has emerged about the validity of the famous Hodgkin-Huxley model for nerve impulse. Mechanical models have been proposed. This note reviews the experimental properties of the nerve impulse and discusses the proposed alternatives. The experimental data, which rule out some of the alternative suggestions, show that while the Hodgkin-Huxley model may not be complete, it nevertheless includes essential features that should not be overlooked in the attempts made to improve, or supersede, it.

Indexed as

Models, NeurologicalAction PotentialsAnimalsHumansNeuronsAxonHodgkin-Huxley modelNerve cellNerve impulse

Identifiers

PMID33037976
PMCPMC7719126

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