Effects of refractoriness on the statistics of the post-membrane output IPIs

Refractory period is an important factor that affects output inter-pulse intervals (LPIs) statistics at post-membrane position of a gap function. However this factor is seldom considered in analyses of the synaptic pulse train transmission. Based on the previous theoretical study, a general form of the p.d.f. of post-membrane output IPIs is obtained in this work. The exponential and Gaussian distributed input IPIs to the gap junction are used for verification, and the results show that the theoretical results are consistent with the simulated ones for the two cases studied