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Edgar Adrian and Patrick Merton: Names Blurred with the Passage of Time

Edgar Douglas Adrian and Patrick Anthony Merton are two supreme neurophysiologists from England in the last century whose names are almost forgotten these days. Adrian's work on all-or-none phenomenon in nerve and muscle excitability ushered in a new era and Merton's servo theory of muscul...

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Autor principal: Bhattacharyya, Kalyan B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5909139/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29720793
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/aian.AIAN_271_17
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description Edgar Douglas Adrian and Patrick Anthony Merton are two supreme neurophysiologists from England in the last century whose names are almost forgotten these days. Adrian's work on all-or-none phenomenon in nerve and muscle excitability ushered in a new era and Merton's servo theory of muscular movement and muscle fatigue added a new dimension to the understanding of stretch reflex and deep tendon reflexes. Both of them trained and worked at Trinity College, Cambridge and both were elected as Fellow of the Royal Society and Adrian in addition, was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1932 along with Charles Scott Sherrington.
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spelling pubmed-59091392018-05-02 Edgar Adrian and Patrick Merton: Names Blurred with the Passage of Time Bhattacharyya, Kalyan B. Ann Indian Acad Neurol History of Medicine Edgar Douglas Adrian and Patrick Anthony Merton are two supreme neurophysiologists from England in the last century whose names are almost forgotten these days. Adrian's work on all-or-none phenomenon in nerve and muscle excitability ushered in a new era and Merton's servo theory of muscular movement and muscle fatigue added a new dimension to the understanding of stretch reflex and deep tendon reflexes. Both of them trained and worked at Trinity College, Cambridge and both were elected as Fellow of the Royal Society and Adrian in addition, was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1932 along with Charles Scott Sherrington. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC5909139/ /pubmed/29720793 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/aian.AIAN_271_17 Text en Copyright: © 2006 - 2018 Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_short Edgar Adrian and Patrick Merton: Names Blurred with the Passage of Time
title_sort edgar adrian and patrick merton: names blurred with the passage of time
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5909139/
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