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For the Nobel winning work on this from long ago, I heartily recommend: Hodgkin, A. L. (1958). The Croonian Lecture: Ionic Movements and Electrical Activity
by hprotagonist 6y ago
For the Nobel winning work on this from long ago, I heartily recommend:
Hodgkin, A. L. (1958). The Croonian Lecture: Ionic Movements and Electrical Activity in Giant Nerve Fibres. Biological Sciences, 148(930), 1–37. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/83088
This contains my absolute favorite figure caption ever:
A fresh and lively squid was taken out of the aquarium and immobilized by cutting the nerves connecting the head with the stellate ganglion. The mantle was opened ventrally by a single cut and was spread out under cooled oxygenated sea water in a transparent dish. Using a motor car headlamp to illuminate the animal and a binocular microscope to watch the penetration,...
- nextaccountic 6y agoPoor squid. :(
- CamperBob2 6y agoWir müssen wissen – wir werden wissen. - Epitaph of David Hilbert We do what we want, because we can. - GLaDOS Take your pick of rationales, it's not gonna end well for Mr. Squid.
- hprotagonist 6y agoInterestingly, the experiment in Figure 2 was to demonstrate that action potentials could be generated from isolated neurons in buffer solution just as well as they could from an exposed neuron in situ -- so the squid still dies, but it's not tortured to death.
- gigama 6y agoSomewhere in the multiverse, a scientifically curious Heptapod takes a fresh and lively humanoid from its terrarium and immobilizes it by cutting the nerves connecting the stellate ganglion...
- trhway 6y agoEnder's Game series comes to mind.