Effects of channel noise on metabolic energy cost of action potentials
离子通道噪声对神经元新陈代谢能量的影响

We study the metabolic energy cost of action potential in neuron for various membrane sizes and at different temperatures. Using the occupation number method to model stochastic Hodgkin-Huxley neuron, we found that there exists a minimal metabolic energy cost near the real size of the membrane at room temperature.