Galvani's spark : the story of the nerve impulse / Alan J. McComas.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.Description: xxiii, 391 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780199751754 (alk. paper)
- Hodgkin, A. L. (Alan L.)
- Huxley, Andrew, 1917-2012
- Neural conduction -- Research -- History
- Neural transmission -- Research -- History
- Action potentials (Electrophysiology) -- Research -- History
- Neurophysiology -- history
- Action Potentials
- History, 20th Century
- Nervous System
- Neurophysiology -- instrumentation
- 616.8/047547 22
- QP363 .M385 2011
- 2011 I-378
- WL 11.1
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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