Usually, attempts to demonstrate the physiological function of a substance are made after this substance has been shown to be present in the animal body or tissue. In the case of acetylcholine (ACh), the sequence of events was quite different, for, it will be seen that the physiological role of ACh had been suggested long before its discovery in animal tissue. It is generally believed that two different physiological events occur innerve activity: a) conduction, i.e. propagation of the nerve impulse in the nerve fibers and, b) transmission, a biochemical process that occurs at nerve endings or synapses. The fundamental findings on which these concepts were based can be traced as far back as 1843.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.115220 |
| Date | January 1963 |
| Creators | Proulx, Lucille. M. |
| Contributors | Hosein, E. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science. (Department of Chemistry.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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