Chemical Wave Transmission in Nerve

The author examines the nature of change that is transmitted in nerve.

A. V. Hill (Author)

9780521115445, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 16 July 2009

88 pages
21.6 x 14 x 0.5 cm, 0.12 kg

The author, a physiologist, in giving the Liversidge lecture for 'the encouragement of research in chemistry', chose for his subject one in which the help of chemists as well as engineers and physicists is an essential condition of advance. It is his earnest hope that as a result of this book a chemist may come to the aid of physiologists in one of the most difficult and attractive scientific problems; the nature of the change that is transmitted in nerve.

Preface
1. Chemical Wave Transmission in Nerve
2. Appendix 1. The excitation of nerve
3. Appendix 2. The measurement of the heat production of nerve
4. Appendix 3. The energy of a nerve stimulus
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Biomedical engineering [MQW]