كتاب
The war of the soups and the sparks: the discovery of neurotransmitters and the dispute over how nerves communicate
| العنوان: | The war of the soups and the sparks: the discovery of neurotransmitters and the dispute over how nerves communicate |
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| المؤلفون: | Valenstein, Elliot S. |
| بيانات النشر: | New York : Columbia University Press, c2005. |
| سنة النشر: | 2005 |
| وصف مادي: | xviii, 237 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Synaptic Transmission., Neurotransmitter Agents -- history., Neurotransmitters -- History., Neural transmission -- History., History. |
| الوصف: | The question of how nerves communicate with one another was the subject of a heated & protracted dispute between pharmacologists & neurophysiologists. This book recalls the debate & how the theory of chemical transmission was eventually confirmed by the discovery of neurotransmitters. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | Setting the stage: the neuron doctrine and the synapse -- The autonomic nervous system: testing drugs on visceral organs and skeletal muscles -- An idea ahead of its time: the first hint at the existence of chemical neurotransmitters -- Henry Dale: laying the foundation -- Otto Loewi: an inspired dream and a speculative leap -- The road to the Nobel prize -- Walter Cannon: a near miss by America's most renowned physiologist -- The war of the soups and the sparks -- Loewi, Dalem and Cannon: the later years -- Brain neurotransmitters: a new continent to explore -- Epilogue: some final reflections. |
| Original Identifier: | ocm57573938 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-231-13588-7 978-0-231-50973-2 0-231-13588-2 0-231-50973-1 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.009814669.6 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
Full Text Finder | ردمك: | 9780231135887 9780231509732 0231135882 0231509731 |
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