The influence of intrinsic channel noise on the spontaneous spiking activity of poisoned excitable membrane patches is studied by use of a stochastic generalization of the Hodgkin–Huxley model. Internal noise stemming from the stochastic dynamics of individual ion channels is known to affect...

Using a stochastic generalization of the Hodgkin–Huxley model, we consider the influence of intrinsic channel noise on the synchronization between the spiking activity of the excitable membrane and an externally applied periodic signal. For small patches, i.e., when the channel noise dominates...