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action current adductor muscle alteration animal anodic appears artificial battery current Bois-Reymond capillary electrometer cardiac muscle cells changes of form chemical circuit closure contraction constant current contractile substance corresponding cross-section curarised current of rest curve deflection direction duration effects of excitation electrical excitation electrodes electromotive action electromotive force Engelmann excitation effects exhibited experiments fact fatigue fibres fibrils frog galvanometer gastrocnemius glands height Hermann increase induction currents induction shocks intensity intestine kathode Kühne latent period latter layer leading-off less localised longitudinal mucosa muscle current muscle-cells muscle-fibres muscle-substance muscular negative variation nerve normal observed persistent closure Pflügers Arch physiological polar polarising current positive variation produce protoplasm rapid reaction regard relaxation rest current rhythmical Rollett sarcoplasm sartorius secondary segment shortening skeletal muscle skin sluggish smooth muscle stimulus strength striated muscle surface tetanising tetanus tion tract transverse section traversed twitch uninjured ureter ventricle veratrin wave of contraction
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Page 257 - ... substance remain entire. These unchanged molecules are important, for they are responsible for the cataphoric action of the direct current. At the same time that the direct current causes the anions to move toward the anode and the cations toward the cathode, it also causes the unchanged molecules to move in the direction of the current — from the positive to the negative pole.
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Page 107 - It seems to be an almost universal property of muscular substance to fall under certain conditions, with all prolonged stimuli, into a state of visible rhythmical excitation.
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Page 83 - Assimilation and dissimilation must rather be conceived as two closely interwoven processes, which constitute the metabolism (unknown to us in its intrinsic nature) of the living substance, and active in the smallest particles, since living matter is neither permanent nor quiescent, but is in more or less constant internal motion.