Keynes & Aidley's Nerve and Muscle
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Keynes & Aidley's Nerve and Muscle

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Keynes & Aidley's Nerve and Muscle

About this book

This well-established and acclaimed textbook introducing the rapidly growing field of nerve and muscle function has been completely revised and updated. Written with undergraduate students in mind, it begins with the fundamental principles demonstrated by the pioneering electrophysiological experiments on cell excitability. This leads to more challenging material recounting recent discoveries from applying modern biochemical, genetic, physiological and biophysical, experimental and mathematical analysis. The resulting interdisciplinary approach conveys a unified contemporary understanding of nerve and skeletal, cardiac and smooth muscle function at the molecular, cellular and systems levels. Emphasis on important strategic experiments throughout clarifies the basis for our current scientific views, highlights the excitement and challenge of biomedical discovery, and suggests directions for future advances. These fundamental ideas are then translated into discussions of related disease conditions and their clinical management. Now including colour illustrations, it is an invaluable text for students of physiology, neuroscience, cell biology and biophysics.

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Yes, you can access Keynes & Aidley's Nerve and Muscle by Christopher L.-H. Huang in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Biological Sciences & Biophysics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. List of Abbreviations used in the text
  10. 1 Structural Organisation of the Nervous System
  11. 2 Resting and Action Potentials
  12. 3 Background Ionic Homeostasis of Excitable Cells
  13. 4 Membrane Permeability Changes During Excitation
  14. 5 Voltage-Gated Ion Channels
  15. 6 Cable Theory and Saltatory Conduction
  16. 7 Neuromuscular Transmission
  17. 8 Synaptic Transmission in the Nervous System
  18. 9 The Mechanism of Contraction in Skeletal Muscle
  19. 10 The Activation of Skeletal Muscle
  20. Plates
  21. 11 Excitation–Contraction Coupling in Skeletal Muscle
  22. 12 Contractile Function in Skeletal Muscle
  23. 13 Cardiac Muscle
  24. 14 Ion Channel Function and Cardiac Arrhythmogenesis
  25. 15 Smooth Muscle
  26. Further Reading
  27. References
  28. Index