The power of torpedo fish as a pathological model to the understanding of nervous transmission in Antiquity

Comptes Rendus - Biologies

Volumn 329, Issue 5-6, 2006, Pages 298-302

  Debru, Armelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Animal electricity; Aristotle; Electric chock; Galen; Hippocrate; Numbness; Pathology; Physiology; Poison; Propagation; Quality; Torpedo

Indexed keywords

FISH; NEUROLOGY; PATHOLOGY; TOXICOLOGY;

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAIN FUNCTION; DYSESTHESIA; DYSKINESIA; ELECTRIC SHOCK; ELECTRICITY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FISH; HYPOTHESIS; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PARESTHESIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICS; TORPEDO; ZOOLOGY;

ANIMALS; FISH DISEASES; HISTORY, ANCIENT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TORPEDO; TOXICOLOGY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33646796354     PISSN: 16310691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2006.03.001     Document Type: Article

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