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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Neurophysiol. 2019 Mar 15;130(6):941–951. doi: 10.1016/j.clinph.2019.02.016

Table 3:

Cell morphology parameters used to construct the Aβ- and C-fiber multi-compartment models.

Parameter Aβ-fiber Value C-Fiber Value Reference
Fiber diameter (peripheral) 7.3 μm 0.8 μm (Ha 1970; Lee etal. 1986)
Fiber diameter (central) 5.7 μm 0.4 μm (Ha 1970; Lee etal. 1986)
Fiber diameter (stem) 7.3 μm 1.4 μm (Lee et al. 1986; Sundt et al. 2015)
Stem axon length 789 μm 844 μm (Ito and Takahashi 1960; Amir and Devor 2003; Sundt et al. 2015)
Soma length 80 μm 25 μm (Ito and Takahashi 1960; Amir and Devor 2003; Sundt et al. 2015)
Soma diameter 80 μm 25 μm (Ito and Takahashi 1960; Amir and Devor 2003; Sundt et al. 2015)
Node length 1.0 μm - (Mclntyre et al. 2002)
Heminode diameter 5 μm - (Ito and Takahashi 1960; Amir and Devor 2003)
Initial segment length 200 μm - (Ito and Takahashi 1960; Amir and Devor 2003)
Initial segment diameter 5 μm - (Ito and Takahashi 1960; Amir and Devor 2003)
Paranode length 3.0 μm - (Mclntyre et al. 2002)
Juxtaparanode length Variable - (Mclntyre et al. 2002)
Internode length Variable - (Mclntyre et al. 2002; Amir and Devor 2003)