Medicine
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DOI: 10.17160/josha.4.1.260
Ion Channels: Their Discovery and their Role in Pharmacology and Biomedicine
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Erwin Neher
Max-Planck Institute for biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen
The concept of bioelectricity emerged in the late 18th century, based on the experiments of Galvani and Volta. Sixty years ago Hodgkin and Huxley showed that the nerve impulse is…