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-The NEURON and XPP code is available for the paper:
-Coggan JS, Ocker GK, Sejnowski TJ, Prescott SA (2011) Explaining pathological changes in axonal excitability through dynamical analysis of conductance-based models. J Neural Eng 8:065002
-from the authors and at the authors web site:
-http://prescottlab.ca/code-for-models
-as well as in this modeldb archive. The XPP code is the ode file in the top-level folder and the NEURON code is in the NEURONcode folder.
+The NEURON and XPP code is available for the paper:
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+Coggan JS, Ocker GK, Sejnowski TJ, Prescott SA (2011) Explaining pathological changes in axonal excitability through dynamical analysis of conductance-based models. *J Neural Eng* 8:065002
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+from the authors and at the authors web site:
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+[http://prescottlab.ca/code-for-models](http://prescottlab.ca/code-for-models)
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+as well as in this modeldb archive. The XPP code is the ode file in the top-level folder and the NEURON code is in the NEURONcode folder.
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The XPP file was contributed by Steve Prescott and the NEURON code was contributed by Jay Coggan.
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+2025-06-20: Converted README to Markdown.
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