Abstract
The transition process from the resting state to the state of spontaneous repetitive firing, in squid giant axons has numerically been analysed by the use of modified Hodgkin-Huxley equations. The experimentally observed behavior of the membrane potentials in this process was well simulated by the numerical solutions of the modified Hodgkin-Huxley equations.
It has been concluded by this analysis that the resting state and the state of spontaneous repetitive firing in squid giant axons correspond thermodynamically to a thermodynamical branch and a dissipative structure in the non-equilibrium system and mathematically to an equilibrium point and a limit cycle in the nonlinear system.
