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electrotonic current

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electrotonic current
Etymology: Gk, elektron + tonos, tension
a current induced in a nerve sheath without the generation of new current by an action potential.


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A measure of the electrotonic current (F^sub e^) at each node (or cell) in the 2-D sheet in a given spiral-wave snapshot was obtained by first calculating the voltage gradients in the x (F^sub x^) and the y (F^sub y^) directions, and then estimating the magnitude of F^sub e^ = (F^sup 2^^sub x^+F^sup 2^^sub y^)^sup 1/2^, as depicted schematically in the top panel in Fig.
 
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