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On travelling wave solutions of the Hodgkin-Huxley equations

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Hastings, S.P. On travelling wave solutions of the Hodgkin-Huxley equations. Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 60, 229–257 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01789258

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