The electrical conductivity of animal tissues under normal and pathological conditions
The electrical conductivity of animal tissues under normal and pathological conditions
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DOI:
10.1152/ajplegacy.1922.60.1.59
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发表时间:
1922-03-01
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Rowland, AF
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作者:
Crile, GW;Hosmer, HR;Rowland, AF
The researches of Lillie (l), Loeb (2), Osterhout (3), Mathews (4), McClendon (5), Hill (6), Lucas (7) and of many other biophysicists and chemists (8) indicate that the functions of the cells of living organisms are related to electrical processes; that the living cell, whether it exists alone or as an element in a complex organism, possesses a certain store of potential energy which is manifested by variations in polarity and by action currents; that variations in the permeability of the living cell to the electrically charged elements of the fluid which surrounds it parallel variations in irritability in response to stimulation; that factors which suspend or abolish irritability also suspend or abolish alterations in permeability.Every activity of living tissue is accompanied by electrical currents; and many activities are also initiated by electrical currents. In fact, the work of the investigators referred to above shows how strong is the tendency to consider that vital processes depend upon electric energy, by means of which also the protoplasm is renewed, and the whole mechanism is constructed.