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Principles of Receptor Physiology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1971)
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Principles of Receptor Physiology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1971)
Series: Handbook of Sensory Physiology, 1
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Why should there be a handbook of sensory physiology, and if so,
why now' The editors have asked this question, marshalled all of
the arguments that seemed to speak against their project, and then
discovered that most of these arguments really spoke in favor of
it: there seemed to be no doubt that the attempt should be made and
that it should be made now. No complete overview of sensory
physiology has been attempted since Bethe's "Handbuch der normalen
und pathologischen Physiologie," nearly forty years ago. Since
then, the field has evolved with unforeseen rapidity. Although
electric probing of single peripheral nerve fibers was begun by
ADRIAN and ZOTTERMAN as early as 1926, in the somatosensory system,
and extended to single optic nerve fibers by HARTLINE in 1932, the
real upsurge of such single-unit studies has only come during the
last two decades. Single-cell electrophysiology has now been
applied to all sensory modalities and on almost every conceivable
phylogenetic level. It has begun to clarify peripheral receptor
action and is adding to our. understanding of the central
processing of sensory information. In parallel with these
developments, there have been fundamental studies of the physics
and chemistry of the receptors themselves: these studies are
leading to insights into the mechanisms of energy transduction and
nerve impulse initiation.
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