The axon reflex as ephaptic transmission: an hypothesis
Gilchrist, J.M.
Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology 28(4): 209-213
1988
ISSN/ISBN: 0301-150X PMID: 2846264 Document Number: 310200
Axon reflexes differ from the Peripheral Late Waves (PLWs) (described by Tomasulo) only in that PLWs do not disappear with a supramaximal electrical stimulus. I propose that axon reflexes and PLWs derive from a single physiologic mechanism, ephaptic transmision, which when undirectional, results in PLWs and when bidirectional, results in axon reflexes.
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