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Certain tissues have long been recognized to exhibit apparently normal movements when isolated from the body. Originally this was attributed to the presence of nervous tissue, but Gaskell and Engelmann towards the end of the nineteenth century established that cardiac muscle possessed the power of spontaneous rhythmic activity. It is now generally accepted that the heart beat is myogenic and not neurogenic in origin. Ciliary movement has always been regarded as autonomous and in 1924 Gray ...
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- Publication date:
- 1959
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- Local pid:
- polonsky:9:2
- Copyright holder:
- Milton, A. S.
- Copyright date:
- 1959
- Notes:
- This thesis was digitised thanks to the generosity of Dr Leonard Polonsky
Thesis
A study of cardiac and ciliary activity
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