Luigi Galvani's path to animal electricity

Comptes Rendus - Biologies

Volumn 329, Issue 5-6, 2006, Pages 303-318

  Piccolino, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Animal electricity; Electrophysiology; History of science; Luigi Galvani

Indexed keywords

METAL;

ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL MEDICINE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXCITABLE MEMBRANE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; IMAGERY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER MEMBRANE; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PUBLISHING; SCIENCE; SCIENTIST;

ANIMALS; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; ITALY; RANIDAE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33646766794     PISSN: 16310691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2006.03.002     Document Type: Article

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