Andrew Huxley
English physiologist and biophysicist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley was an English physiologist and biophysicist. He was born into the prominent Huxley family. After leaving Westminster School in central London, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge on a scholarship, after which he joined Alan Lloyd Hodgkin to study nerve impulses. Their eventual discovery of the basis for propagation of nerve impulses earned them the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1963. They made their discovery from the giant axon of the Atlantic squid. Soon after the outbreak of the Second World War, Huxley was recruited by the British Anti-Aircraft Command and later transferred to the Admiralty. After the war he resumed research at the University of Cambridge, where he developed interference microscopy that would be suitable for studying muscle fibres.
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- A quantitative description of membrane current and its application to conduction and excitation in nerve. (1952) (14315)
- A quantitative description of membrane current and its application to conduction and excitation in nerve (1990) (7941)
- Muscle structure and theories of contraction. (1957) (3080)
- The variation in isometric tension with sarcomere length in vertebrate muscle fibres (1966) (2988)
- Currents carried by sodium and potassium ions through the membrane of the giant axon of Loligo (1952) (2317)
- The dual effect of membrane potential on sodium conductance in the giant axon of Loligo (1952) (1577)
- Measurement of current‐voltage relations in the membrane of the giant axon of Loligo (1952) (1493)
- The components of membrane conductance in the giant axon of Loligo (1952) (1343)
- Tension responses to sudden length change in stimulated frog muscle fibres near slack length (1977) (849)
- The action potential in the myelinated nerve fibre of Xenopus laevis as computed on the basis of voltage clamp data (1964) (703)
- Evidence for saltatory conduction in peripheral myelinated nerve fibres (1949) (566)
- Action Potentials Recorded from Inside a Nerve Fibre (1939) (529)
- The relation between stiffness and filament overlap in stimulated frog muscle fibres. (1981) (475)
- Muscular contraction. Review lecture (1974) (418)
- Resting and action potentials in single nerve fibres (1945) (357)
- Tension development in highly stretched vertebrate muscle fibres (1966) (338)
- ION MOVEMENTS DURING NERVE ACTIVITY (1959) (310)
- Mechanical Transients and the Origin of Muscular Force (1973) (297)
- The maximum length for contraction in vertebrate striated muscle (1961) (290)
- Effect of potassium and sodium on resting and action potentials of single myelinated nerve fibres (1951) (278)
- Propagation of electrical signals along giant nerve fibres (1952) (272)
- STRUCTURAL IDENTIFICATION OF TWITCH AND SLOW STRIATED MUSCLE FIBERS OF THE FROG (1962) (215)
- A Theoretical Treatment of the Reflexion of Light by Multilayer Structures (1968) (158)
- Tension transients during steady shortening of frog muscle fibres. (1985) (156)
- Local activation of striated muscle fibres (1958) (156)
- Direct determination of membrane resting potential and action potential in single myelinated nerve fibres (1951) (139)
- The Croonian Lecture, 1967: The activation of striated muscle and its mechanical response (1971) (118)
- Tension transients during the rise of tetanic tension in frog muscle fibres. (1986) (113)
- The activation and distribution of GABA and L‐glutamate receptors on goldfish Mauthner neurones: an analysis of dendritic remote inhibition (1968) (108)
- Actin compliance: are you pulling my chain? (1994) (103)
- Movement of sodium and potassium ions during nervous activity. (1952) (102)
- Mechanics and models of the myosin motor. (2000) (101)
- Cross-bridge action: present views, prospects, and unknowns. (2000) (99)
- Measurement of the striations of isolated muscle fibres with the interference microscope (1958) (95)
- A note suggesting that the cross-bridge attachment during muscle contraction may take place in two stages (1973) (89)
- Function of Krause's Membrane (1955) (88)
- LOCAL ACTIVATION OF MUSCLE (1959) (88)
- Filament compliance and tension transients in muscle (1996) (83)
- A system for fast recording of longitudinal displacement of a striated muscle fibre (1981) (81)
- Potassium leakage from an active nerve fibre (1947) (80)
- Mechanical properties of the cross-bridges of frog striated muscle. (1971) (75)
- Rapid 'give' and the tension 'shoulder' in the relaxation of frog muscle fibres. (1970) (67)
- On the structure of resilin (1965) (58)
- Movement of radioactive potassium and membrane current in a giant axon (1953) (52)
- Muscular contraction. (1974) (51)
- Hodgkin and the action potential 1935–1952 (2002) (43)
- Potassium Leakage From an Active Nerve Fibre (1946) (41)
- Striation Patterns in Active and Passive Shortening of Muscle (1962) (35)
- Rapid regeneration of power stroke in contracting muscle by attachment of second myosin head (1997) (32)
- Proceedings: Mechanism of early tension recovery after a quick release in tetanized muscle fibres. (1974) (32)
- How molecular motors work in muscle (1998) (28)
- A program for developing a comprehensive mathematical description of the crossbridge cycle of muscle. (1994) (26)
- Measurement of muscle striations in stretch and contraction. (1954) (25)
- A quick phase in the series-elastic component of striated muscle, demonstrated in isolated fibres from the frog. (1970) (23)
- Evidence for saltatory conduction in peripheral myelinated nerve fibres. (1949) (22)
- Electron microscopy of frog muscle fibres in extreme passive shortening. (1970) (22)
- The links between excitation and contraction (1964) (18)
- Interpretation of muscle striation: evidence from visible light microscopy. (1956) (18)
- The origin of force in skeletal muscle. (1975) (18)
- nerve and its application to conduction and excitation in A quantitative description of membrane current (2007) (15)
- A high-power interference microscope. (1954) (14)
- Structural studies of the waves in striated muscle fibres shortened passively below their slack length (1984) (14)
- Sarcomere and filament lengths in passive muscle fibres with wavy myofibrils (1984) (14)
- Identification of source of oscillations in apparent sarcomere length measured by laser diffraction. (1995) (12)
- Local activation of striated muscle from the frog and the crab. (1957) (12)
- Weak antiferromagnetic order and superconductivity in UPt3 studied by neutron scattering (2002) (11)
- A theoretical treatment of diffraction of light by a striated muscle fibre (1990) (11)
- The Florey Lecture, 1982 Discovery: accident or design? (1982) (10)
- An ultramicrotome. (1957) (10)
- Tension Transients after Quick Release in Rat and Frog Skeletal Muscles (Reply) (1972) (10)
- THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF CROSS-BRIDGES AND THEIR RELATION TO MUSCLE CONTRACTION (1981) (9)
- A fine time for contractual alterations (1992) (9)
- The instantaneous elasticity of frog skeletal muscle fibres [proceedings]. (1976) (8)
- Muscle: Support for the lever arm (1998) (8)
- NEWS IN PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES (2002) (7)
- A capacitance-gauge tension transducer. (1968) (7)
- Crossbridge tilting confirmed (1995) (6)
- Applications of an interference microscope. (1952) (5)
- Pain pathways (2018) (4)
- Reply to R. H. Abbott (1972) (4)
- Address of the President Sir Andrew Huxley at the Anniversary Meeting, 30 November 1981 (1982) (4)
- Energetics of muscle. (1970) (3)
- Overton on the indispensability of sodium ions (1999) (3)
- Biological actions of calcium. (2007) (2)
- Discoveries on muscle: observation, theory, and experiment. (1986) (2)
- Bone-conducted sound (1990) (2)
- Nullius in verba (1985) (2)
- Introductory lecture on muscle contraction. (1993) (2)
- Address of the President Sir Andrew Huxley, O.M. at the Anniversary Meeting, 30 November 1983 (1984) (1)
- Muscle contraction. Crossbridge tilting confirmed. (1995) (1)
- A DISCUSSION ON THE PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL BASIS OF MUSCULAR CONTRACTION. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. (1964) (1)
- Loligo through the membrane of the giant axon of Currents carried by sodium and potassium ions (2007) (1)
- Address of the President Sir Andrew Huxley at the Anniversary Meeting, 30 November 1982 (1983) (1)
- Muscle: present problems and historical background (1987) (1)
- The award of medals by the President, Sir Andrew Huxley, O. M., at the Anniversary Meeting, 30 November 1985 (1986) (0)
- T.J. Huxley and the development of Physiology in Britain [proceedings]. (1976) (0)
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences: 355 (1396) (2000) (0)
- Testing is necessary on animals as well as in vitro (2006) (0)
- The Samuel Pruzansky memorial lecture: understanding muscle. (1986) (0)
- Parallels in nerve and muscle research (1994) (0)
- PROFESSOR A. F. HUXLEY AND HIS STUDIES OF MUSCLE 遠 藤 實 (2013) (0)
- More about the lion and its claw (1988) (0)
- ON ARGUING FROM ONE KIND OF MUSCLE TO ANOTHER (1978) (0)
- Muscle Physiology (1973) (0)
- Abstracts of the XVIII European Conference on Muscle and Motility (1990) (0)
- Obituary: David Keynes Hill (1915–2002) (2002) (0)
- MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE IN NERVE (2006) (0)
- Microscopy of Muscle in the 19th and 20th Centuries (2000) (0)
- Effect of a local change of membrane resistance on the electrotonic potential recorded nearer to the source. (1968) (0)
- [Not Available]. (1948) (0)
- BA address: Huxley responds (1977) (0)
- [Direct determination of membrane potential in medullated nerve fibres at rest and under stimulation]. (1950) (0)
- Muscle. A fine time for contractual alterations. (1992) (0)
- Introductory remarks (1964) (0)
- MUSCULAR CONTRACTION (1951) (0)
- An automatic smoothing circuit for the input to digitizing equipment [proceedings]. (1979) (0)
- Classic Pages (1967) (0)
- Discussion: “A New Method for Etching Surfaces of Bearings and Other Machine Elements” (Hirs, G. G., and Sonneveld, J. IJ., 1980, ASME J. Lubr. Technol., 102, pp. 395–400) (1980) (0)
- Mathematical Biophysics (1950) (0)
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