After a few weeks away from the lab, here is a selection of papers:

• Waxman and Swadlow (1977) - The conduction properties of axons in central white matter. Relation between diameter and conduction velocity, among other things.
• Hodgkin (1951) - The Ionic Basis of Electrical Activity in Nerve and Muscle. An excellent review!
• Hodgkin and Huxley (1952) - Currents carried by sodium and potassium ions through the membrane of the giant axon of Loligo. Fig. 9 nicely shows the exponential dependence of the sodium conductance on membrane potential at hyperpolarized voltages.
• Standen and Stanfield (1982) - A Binding-Site Model for Calcium Channel Inactivation that Depends on Calcium Entry. A simple model of calcium-mediated inactivation of calcium channels.

This week I got interested in how a cell adapts too changes in size (for example, the membrane area of a neuron grows by several orders of magnitude during development).

• Marguerat and Bahler (2012) - Coordinating genome expression with cell size.
• Rafelski and Marshall (2012) - Building the cell: design principles of cellular architecture.
• Levy and Heald (2012) - Mechanisms of Intracellular Scaling.
• Marshall (2015) - How Cells Measure Length on Subcellular Scales.
• Singer and Nicolson (1972) - The Fluid Mosaic Model of the Structure of Cell Membranes. More or less our current understanding of membranes: the membrane as a 2D lipid solution of proteins.
• Hartmann et al (2016) - Transaural experiments and a revised duplex theory for the localization of low-frequency tones. Apparently ILD is an important localization cue in low frequency (combined with ITD).