OUR knowledge of impulse patterns in the different types of afferent nerve fibres is based chiefly on animal experiments. It is true that Hensel and Boman 1 recorded action potentials from single ...

The Nerve Impulse How do living things transmit electrical signals with equipment composed largely of water? Although there is disagreement on some features of the process, much has been learned ...

The giant nerve fibers of this common invertebrate are as much as a millimeter in diameter. Their large size has made possible important investigations into the physiology of nerve impulses By ...