Electromagnetism, Quanta, and Electron Flow in the Electrophysiology of Living Cells

Contents
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Preface
Abbreviations
[A] Introduction
	Chapter 1. Facts and definitions
	Chapter 2. What about volts?
	Chapter 3. What is the current idea about cellular voltage?
	Chapter 4. The concept of electron density
	Chapter 5. Does the electrolyte distribution actually determine the trans-membrane potential?
	Chapter 6. Where, in living cells, is electricity generated?
	Chapter 7. Depolarisation (loss of cytoplasmic electron density) activation
	Chapter 8. A test of the impedance hypothesis
	Chapter 9. Fast depolarisation in conducting tissues
	Chapter 10. Repolarisation
	Chapter 11. The calcium, sodium and potassium problems
	Chapter 12. Excitation-contraction coupling in muscles
		The effect of the Ca2+ problem on skeletal muscle electrophysiology
	Chapter 13. The effect of the Ca2+ problem on cardiac muscle electrophysiology
	Chapter 14. Mechanical restitution and the optimal contractile response
	Chapter 15. Internal calcium ion release and recirculation
[B] Non-Electromagnetic Theory versus Electromagnetic Theory of Muscular Function
	Chapter 16. Objections to the non-electromagnetic theory of striated muscle
	Chapter 17. Different theories
		Towards an alternative theory
	Chapter 18. Electromagnetic theory of muscle contraction
	Chapter 19. Electrophysiology of smooth muscle
		Vascular smooth muscle
	Chapter 20. Flow-mediated dilatation
		Role of nitric oxide in restoring electron density
	Chapter 21. Pulmonary vessels
		Role of hypoxia and serotonin
	Chapter 22. Non-vascular smooth muscle
		Gut
		Ducts
		Bladder, ureter, urethra and urinary sphincter
	Chapter 23. Hierarchy of vertebrate muscle
[C] Other Organs
	Chapter 24. Electrophysiology of endocrine glands
		Pituitary-hypothalamus complex: “The conductor of the endocrine orchestra”
		Electrophysiology of the endocrine pancreas
		Electrophysiology of the thyroid follicular cells
		Electrophysiology of the parathyroid glands
		Electrophysiology of the pineal gland
		Testosterone-secreting cells (Leydig cells)
		Adrenal gland
	Chapter 25. Electrophysiology of exocrine glands
		Pancreatic acinar cells
		Salivary acinar cells
		Other exocrine glands
	Chapter 26. Exceptions to any general model
		Electrophysiology of the liver
		Electrophysiology of the kidney
		Electrophysiology of the lung
		Electrophysiology of the ear
		Electrophysiology of the eye — an exceptional exception
	Chapter 27. Central and autonomic nervous systems
	Chapter 28. Receptors affecting perception
		Pain receptors
		Stretch receptors
		Muscle stretch receptors
		Gut stretch receptors
		Touch receptors
	Chapter 29. Receptors initiating feedback control reflexes
		Baroreceptors
		Baroreflex
		Taste and smell receptors
		Other chemoreceptors
	Chapter 30. Summary and general comments on vertebrate animals
[D] Invertebrates
	Chapter 31. The electrophysiology of invertebrates
		Insects
		Molluscs
		Slugs
		Snails
		Squid
		Octopus
		Mussels
		Jellyfish
		Animals
[E] Interlude
	Chapter 32. Electricity passing through flesh
		From cardiac action potentials to ECG
		Passage of some electricity from the heart to the body surface
		Frontal plane (2D) vector analysis
		Anterior to posterior vector analysis
[F] Other Organisms
	Chapter 33. Plants
		Land plants
		The pathway of electrons
		Sea plants
	Chapter 34. Fungi
	Chapter 35. “Primitive” organisms
		Amoebae
		Slime moulds
		Plankton
		Hydra
		Lamprey
	Chapter 36. Bacteria
		Microbiome
		Archaea
		Viruses and Phages
		Light-emitting organisms
Epilogue
References
Index