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. 2011 Oct;138(4):393–419. doi: 10.1085/jgp.201110682

TABLE A2.

Typical parameter values for muscle sodium channels

Parameter Value Dimension
PCl (1 − 5) × 10−6 cm/sec
PNa 2 × 10−4 − 2 × 10−3 cm/sec
αm 0.13 ms−1
Vm −40 mV
kαm 4 mV
βm 0.7 ms−1
kβm 6 mV
αh 2 × 10−4 ms−1
Vh −19 mV
kαh 7.6 mV
βh1 9 ms−1
βh2 0.08 (mV × ms)−1
kβh 20 mV
[Na]o 78 mM
[Na]i 13 mM

See Results for specific deviations from these values.