Scales of Reaction to Electric Shock: Thresholds and Biophysical Mechanisms

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 720, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 21-37

  REILLY, J PATRICK ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOPHYSICS; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTRIC SHOCK; ELECTROPORATION; EXCITABILITY; HEART EXCITATION; MUSCLE EXCITATION; SENSORY SYSTEM; TISSUE INJURY; TISSUE REACTION;

EID: 0028322298     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1994.tb30432.x     Document Type: Article

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