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The Physiology of Synapses

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  • © 1964

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Authors:
  1. John Carew Eccles

    1. The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. The Development of Ideas on the Synapse

    • John Carew Eccles
    Pages 1-10

  3. Structural Features of Chemically Transmitting Synapses

    • John Carew Eccles
    Pages 11-26

  4. Physiological Properties of Chemically Transmitting Synapses in the Resting State

    • John Carew Eccles
    Pages 27-36

  5. Excitatory Postsynaptic Responses to Presynaptic Impulses

    • John Carew Eccles
    Pages 37-53

  6. Excitatory Transmitter Substances

    • John Carew Eccles
    Pages 54-74

  7. The Release of Transmitter by Presynaptic Impulses

    • John Carew Eccles
    Pages 75-100

  8. The Generation of Impulses by the Excitatory Postsynaptic Potential and the Endplate Potential

    • John Carew Eccles
    Pages 101-121

  9. The Presynaptic Terminals of Chemically Transmitting Synapses

    • John Carew Eccles
    Pages 122-137

  10. Excitatory Synapses Operating by Electrical Transmission

    • John Carew Eccles
    Pages 138-151

  11. The Postsynaptic Electrical Events Produced by Chemically Transmitting Inhibitory Synapses

    • John Carew Eccles
    Pages 152-172

  12. The Ionic Mechanism Generating the Inhibitory Postsynaptic Potential

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    Pages 173-188

  13. Inhibitory Transmitter Substances

    • John Carew Eccles
    Pages 189-200

  14. Pathways Responsible for Postsynaptic Inhibitory Action

    • John Carew Eccles
    Pages 201-215

  15. Inhibitory Synapses Operating by Electrical Transmission

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    Pages 216-219

  16. Presynaptic Inhibition

    • John Carew Eccles
    Pages 220-238

  17. The Trophic and Plastic Properties of Synapses

    • John Carew Eccles
    Pages 239-260

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 261-316
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About this book

I must thank my friend, Professor HANS WEBER, for being, as it were, the prime mover in causing this book to be written. He persuaded me in 1960 to contribute a review to the Ergebnisse der Physiologie. As originally planned, it was to be relatively short. However, the interest and scope of the whole subject of synapses stimulated me to write a much more comprehensive and extensive account. I was not even then satisfied, particularly as so many new and attractive investigations and ideas were being evolved during and after the writing of this review; and during the writing of this book most interesting developments are occurring in so many centres of research. Through the kind cooperation of my friends I have been given the opportunity to quote and even to illustrate from these new and fascinating developments before their final publication. There would be some justification if the author were to make the claim that this book is the fruit of a life-time of enquiry into the physiology of synapses. In 1927 the subject of Excitatory and Inhibitory Synapses was chosen for investigation in the course leading to the Oxford D. Phil. But there have been such remarkable developments during the last 12 years that in this book very little reference will be made to work earlier than 1951 except in the historical introductions.

Authors and Affiliations

  • The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

    John Carew Eccles

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Physiology of Synapses

  • Authors: John Carew Eccles

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-64950-9

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag OHG, Berlin Göttingen Heidelberg 1964

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-64942-4Published: 01 January 1964

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-64950-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 316

  • Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Human Physiology

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