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Animal electricity : how we learned that the body and brain are electric machines /
"Like all cellular organisms, humans run on electricity. Slight imbalances of electric charge across cell membranes result in sensation, movement, awareness, and thinking--nearly everything we associate with being alive. Robert Campenot offers a comprehensive overview of animal electricity, exa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Animal electricity
- A world of cells, molecules, and atoms
- The animal battery
- Hodgkin and Huxley before the war
- The mystery of nerve conduction explained
- Heart to heart
- Nerve to muscle
- Use it or lose it
- Broadcasting in the volume conductor
- The bionic century.