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"Written with undergraduate students in mind, the new edition of this classic textbook provides a compact introduction to the physiology of nerve and muscle. It gives a straightforward account of the fundamentals accompanied by some of the experimental evidence upon which this understanding is...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Keynes, Richard D.
Other Authors: Aidley, David J., Huang, Christopher L.-H
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Edition:Fourth edition.
Subjects:
Myoneural junction.
Neuromuscular transmission.
Muscle contraction.
Muscles > innervation.
Peripheral Nerves.
Table of Contents:
  • Structural organization of the nervous system
  • Resting and action potentials
  • The ionic permeability of the nerve membrane
  • Membrane permeability changes during excitation
  • Voltage-gated ion channels
  • Cable theory and saltatory conduction
  • Neuromuscular transmission
  • Synaptic transmission in the nervous system
  • The mechanism of contraction in skeletal muscle
  • The activation of skeletal muscle
  • Contractile function in skeletal muscle
  • Cardiac muscle
  • Smooth muscle