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Channel noise in nerve membranes and lipid bilayers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2009

F Conti  and
E. Wanke
F Conti
Affiliation:
Laboratorio di Cibernetica e Biofisica, CNR, Camogli, Italy; Laboratorium für Biochemie, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland
E. Wanke
Affiliation:
Laboratorio di Cibernetica e Biofisica, CNR, Camogli, Italy
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The basic principles underlying fluctuation phenomena in thermodynamics have long been understood (for reviews see Kubo, 1957; Kubo, Matsuo & Kazuhiro 1973 Lax, 1960). Classical examples of how fluctuation analysis can provide an insight into the corpuscular nature of matter are the determination of Avogadro's number according to Einstein's theory of Brownian motion (see, e.g. Uhlenbeck & Ornstein, 1930; Kac, 1947) and the evaluation of the electronic charge from the shot noise in vacuum tubes (see Van der Ziel, 1970).

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Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , November 1975 , pp. 451 - 506
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