Classification Erlanger & Gasser 231-N-PA-22
- ICU-diagrams.com
- Nov 20, 2023
- 1 min read
The nerve conduction speed of sensory/motor and vegetative fibers depends not only on their thickness, but also crucially on the degree of their myelination (“sheathing”). Erlanger & Gasser won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1944 for their work in this regard.
