The Hodgkin and Huxley model treats the neuronal membrane as a capacitor and ion channels as resistors, where changes in ionic conductance across the membrane cause a sudden and transient alteration of the transmembrane potential.

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• capacitor concept
• resistors concept
• ion channels concept
• neuronal membrane concept
• Hodgkin-Huxley model concept