Galvani's spark : the story of the nerve impulse

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Galvani's spark : the story of the nerve impulse

Alan J. McComas

Oxford University Press, c2011

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • The spark
  • Catching up
  • The anatomist's eye
  • Cambridge, 1904 : the engineer
  • The cathode ray oscilloscope
  • The code
  • Excitation and inhibition
  • The messengers
  • The squid giant axon
  • The neuromuscular junction
  • The giant axon impaled
  • The war years
  • Sodium unmasked
  • The voltage clamp
  • Aftermath
  • Muscle : The new physiology
  • More triumphs with microelectrodes
  • The single ion channel
  • Myotonic goats and migraines
  • The swinging gate
  • Departures

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