Sentences with phrase «electric organs of»

We detect such currents in muscles, nerves, secretory glands, and electric organs of fish as well as in plant tissue -LRB-...) It seems likely that all these currents have a similar, if not the same basis, and that their strength and potency depends on the structural conditions and chemical composition of the cells making up each organ.»

Focusing first on vesicles, Scheller, then at Stanford University School of Medicine, discovered what would turn out to be an essential piece of the fusion apparatus: vesicle - associated membrane protein (VAMP), which he obtained from the electric organ of a marine ray.

For source material Scheller first obtained vesicles from the electric organ of the marine ray Torpedo, then switched to rat brain vesicles — the same material used by Südhof.

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When eels stack thousands of the organ plates in a row, their bodies can produce much higher voltage electric fields.

The diocese of St Albans will have the final say on whether the church will stick with the organ or switch to electric.

No sense of hurry or time here; no notes, hymnbooks, worship manuals or electric organs.

He repeatedly emphasizes the importance of «quality music» — music produced not by choirs and organs, but by praise teams, soloists and a variety of instrumentalists and small ensembles that use synthesizers, drums and electric guitars.

There, on Aug. 19, Farrar, Straus & Giroux was publishing The Electric Kool - Aid Acid Test while McLain was sitting in the Cottage Room of the Hampshire House hotel, working the three - deck keyboard of the X-77 Hammond organ as a throng of reporters recorded the event.

In his pursuit of 30 wins, McLain zoomed about in Lear jets, played Hammond organs, swigged Pepsi - Colas, schmoozed with Steve Allen, Bob Hope, Ed Sullivan, Joey Bishop, Glen Campbell and the Smothers Brothers, changed his hair color, appeared on the covers of TIME and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, recorded an album, gave organ lessons out of his home to two dozen students at $ 3.50 an hour and got himself booked in advance into the Riviera in Vegas, the Detroit Auto Show, Disneyland and a hundred other places to play electric keyboard with his band come winter.

This new type of power source is modeled after rows of cells called electrocytes in the electric organ that runs along an electric eel's body.

The electric eel generates large electric currents by way of a highly specialized nervous system that has the capacity to synchronize the activity of disc - shaped, electricity - producing cells packed into a specialized electric organ.

Because the cells are oriented inside the electric organ like a series of batteries piled into a flashlight, the current generated by an activated cell «shocks» any inactive neighbor into action, setting off an avalanche of activation that runs its course in just two milliseconds or so.

The weak pulses travel outward through the water then back to the electric organ through thousands of conductive pores covering the fish's body.

Several groups of fish have evolved the capacity to generate electrical pulses from specialised «electric organs», derived from either muscle tissue or nerve tissue.

A conductive material found in the electric field - sensing organs of sharks and rays is inspiring new technology.

He conceived of writing a classical score, but performed by a typical»70s band of electric guitar, electric bass, rock organ and drums.

Since the electric current runs from the point of contact in the mouth throughout the body to critical organs such as the heart and lungs, cardiac and respiratory signs can ensue.

A conductive material found in the electric field - sensing organs of sharks and rays is inspiring new technology.