[Effect of the mobility of gate charges on volt-ampere characteristics of excitable membranes]

An assumption on nature of the gate charges and known data on gate changes mobility allow to deduce the volt-ampere characteristics of ionic channels and the same for membrane. Model research shows that the volt-ampere curve shape depends on gate charges mobility. Its reduction and the followed gate charges immobilization during membrane excitation process are expressed as the changes of volt-ampere curves. These changes might be to specify as the fast components of the inactivation process. A number critical values of the gate charges mobility are calculated which are important for the functions of memory (hysteresis) and excitation (negative resistance). The coincidence of values of biased charge in model and experiment is noted. The formulae that are drown are compared with Hodgkin-Huxley approximations.

PMID: 8924462 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]