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Author | : Alan McComas |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2011-08-08 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0199395950 |
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Galvani's Spark chronicles the gradual understanding of the nerve impulse which is the basis of all thoughts, sensations and actions. The story begins with Luigi Galvani's chance observation of a spark from a friction machine causing a frog's leg to twitch from across the room. The accurate recording and the understanding of the properties of the nerve fiber membrane that makes the impulse possible became the objectives of neuroscientists for over 200 years. The author, Alan J. McComas finely interweaves the stories, the challenges, and the controversies of the most prominent figures in neuroscience, from the histological descriptions of nerve cells by Cajal to the discovery of a three-dimensional structure of ion channels in cell membranes by MacKinnon. Along the way he details the first recordings of the impulse with a cathode ray oscilloscope by Gasser and Erlanger, Adrian's discovery that stimulus intensity is coded by the frequency of nerve impulses, and Hodgkin and Huxley's brilliant voltage clamp experiments, amongst many others. The recognition by Galvani that muscles and nerves have an electrical component triggered the field of neurophysiology and in turn has produced some of the greatest discoveries in neuroscience. 16 investigators of the nerve impulse went on to win or share Nobel prizes and this book not only emphasizes their work but also traces their brilliant careers. For anyone interested in the nervous system and the history of neuroscience, Galvani's Spark: The Story of the Nerve Impulse is essential reading.
Author | : Alan J. McComas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Action potentials (Electrophysiology) |
ISBN | : 9780199897094 |
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Galvani's Spark describes the gradual understanding of the nerve impulse. Proceeding from a chance observation on a frog leg, to studies on squid giant axons and bacteria, this book concludes with the increasing realization that ion channells are responsible for a variety of clinical disorders.--[Source inconnue].
Author | : William J. Turkel |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2013-09 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 142140981X |
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How encounters with strongly electric fish informed our grasp of electricity. Spark from the Deep tells the story of how human beings came to understand and use electricity by studying the evolved mechanisms of strongly electric fish. These animals have the ability to shock potential prey or would-be predators with high-powered electrical discharges. William J. Turkel asks completely fresh questions about the evolutionary, environmental, and historical aspects of people’s interest in electric fish. Stimulated by painful encounters with electric catfish, torpedos, and electric eels, people learned to harness the power of electric shock for medical therapies and eventually developed technologies to store, transmit, and control electricity. Now we look to these fish as an inspiration for engineering new sensors, computer interfaces, autonomous undersea robots, and energy-efficient batteries.
Author | : graf Leo Tolstoy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 962 |
Release | : 1904 |
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Author | : Leo Tolstoy |
Publisher | : Prabhat Prakashan |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2018-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Author | : graf Leo Tolstoy |
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Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 1904 |
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Total Pages | : 568 |
Release | : 1904 |
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Author | : graf Leo Tolstoy |
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Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 1904 |
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Author | : Karoly Simonyi |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 644 |
Release | : 2012-01-25 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 1439865116 |
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While the physical sciences are a continuously evolving source of technology and of understanding about our world, they have become so specialized and rely on so much prerequisite knowledge that for many people today the divide between the sciences and the humanities seems even greater than it was when C. P. Snow delivered his famous 1959 lecture,
Author | : Patrice Sherman |
Publisher | : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2017-07-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1502627728 |
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Over time, Benjamin Franklins kite and key experiment has taken on mythic proportions. Franklins experiment established the relationship between lightning and electricity, but it would take the research of Alessandro Volta to discover how humans can generate electrical currents without relying on weather systems. Electricity establishes the history of a scientific discovery that fundamentally changed the way people live their lives. Tracing the line of inquiry from the ancient Greeks understanding of static electricity, to Edisons light bulb, to Teslas work in bringing electricity to the masses, the book provides biographies of key figures, explanations of the science behind electricity, and an examination of how electricity is used in contemporary research and innovations.