Physical Law and Mechanistic Explanation in the Hodgkin and Huxley Model of the Action Potential

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Philosophia Scientiæ

• Publication date

  2008-12-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Sociology, Physics

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  DOI 10.1086/594543
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