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According to Wikipedia, Herbert Spencer Gasser was an American physiologist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1944 for his work with action potentials in nerve fibers while on the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis, awarded jointly with Joseph Erlanger.

Herbert Spencer Gasser's Published Works

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Published Papers

Electrical Signs of Nervous Activity (488)
AXON DIAMETERS IN RELATION TO THE SPIKE DIMENSIONS AND THE CONDUCTION VELOCITY IN MAMMALIAN A FIBERS (447)
THE RÔLE OF FIBER SIZE IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A NERVE BLOCK BY PRESSURE OR COCAINE (363)
The Dynamics of Muscular Contraction (357)
THE RÔLE PLAYED BY THE SIZES OF THE CONSTITUENT FIBERS OF A NERVE TRUNK IN DETERMINING THE FORM OF ITS ACTION POTENTIAL WAVE (316)
PROPERTIES OF DORSAL ROOT UNMEDULLATED FIBERS ON THE TWO SIDES OF THE GANGLION (278)
POTENTIALS PRODUCED IN THE SPINAL CORD BY STIMULATION OF DORSAL ROOTS (231)
OLFACTORY NERVE FIBERS (189)
UNMEDULLATED FIBERS ORIGINATING IN DORSAL ROOT GANGLIA (185)
THE COMPOUND NATURE OF THE ACTION CURRENT OF NERVE AS DISCLOSED BY THE CATHODE RAY OSCILLOGRAPH (130)
ACTION AND EXCITABILITY IN MAMMALIAN A FIBERS (128)
THE ACTION POTENTIAL IN FIBERS OF SLOW CONDUCTION IN SPINAL ROOTS AND SOMATIC NERVES (121)
AFFERENT FUNCTION IN THE GROUP OF NERVE FIBERS OF SLOWEST CONDUCTION VELOCITY (116)
THE COMPONENT OF THE DORSAL ROOT MEDIATING VASODILATATION AND THE SHERRINGTON CONTRACTURE (113)
A STUDY OF THE ACTION CURRENTS OF NERVE WITH THE CATHODE RAY OSCILLOGRAPH (108)
NERVE ACTIVITY AS MODIFIED BY TEMPERATURE CHANGES (101)
The classification of nerve fibers. (93)
CONTRACTURES OF SKELETAL MUSCLE (91)
CHANGES IN NERVE-POTENTIALS PRODUCED BY RAPIDLY REPEATED STIMULI AND THEIR RELATION TO THE RESPONSIVENESS OF NERVE TO STIMULATION (82)
PROPERTIES OF MAMMALIAN NERVE FIBERS OF SLOWEST CONDUCTION (70)
SOME PROPERTIES OF THE CORD POTENTIALS EVOKED BY A SINGLE AFFERENT VOLLEY (62)
THE NATURE OF CONDUCTION OF AN IMPULSE IN THE RELATIVELY REFRACTORY PERIOD (53)
STUDIES IN SECONDARY TRAUMATIC SHOCK: III. Circulatory Failure Due to Adrenalin (53)
PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION CURRENTS IN THE PHRENIC NERVE. AN APPLICATION OF THE THERMIONIC VACUUM TUBE TO NERVE PHYSIOLOGY (50)
THE RESPONSE OF THE SPINAL CORD TO TWO AFFERENT VOLLEYS (47)
A STUDY OF THE MECHANISMS BY WHICH MUSCULAR EXERCISE PRODUCES ACCELERATION OF THE HEART (44)
Effect of the Method of Leading on the Recording of the Nerve Fiber Spectrum (42)
AXONS AS SAMPLES OF NERVOUS TISSUE (41)
THE ENDING OF THE AXON ACTION POTENTIAL, AND ITS RELATION TO OTHER EVENTS IN NERVE ACTIVITY (38)
The Action Potential in Fibers of Slow Conduction in Spinal Roots and Somatic Nerves. (34)
The Control of Excitation in the Nervous System. (30)
EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF THE SIMPLE ACTION POTENTIAL WAVE IN NERVE BY THE CATHODE RAY OSCILLOGRAPH (30)
STUDIES IN SECONDARY TRAUMATIC SHOCK (30)
STUDIES IN SECONDARY TRAUMATIC SHOCK: IV. The Blood Volume Changes and the Effect of Gum Acacia on their Development (25)
MODIFICATION OF NERVE RESPONSE BY VERATRINE, PROTOVERATRINE AND ACONITINE (24)
THE PHARMACOLOGY OF DENERVATED MAMMALIAN MUSCLE PART I. THE NATURE OF THE SUBSTANCES PRODUCING CONTRACTURE (23)
THE RELATION OF THE SHAPE OF THE ACTION POTENTIAL OF NERVE TO CONDUCTION VELOCITY (22)
THE ANALYSIS OF INDIVIDUAL WAVES IN THE PHRENIC ELECTRONEUROGRAM (22)
HYPERTONIC GUMACACIA AND GLUCOSE IN THE TREATMENT OF SECONDARY TRAUMATIC SHOCK (22)
DISTORTION OF ACTION POTENTIALS AS RECORDED FROM THE NERVE SURFACE (22)
STUDIES IN SECONDARY TRAUMATIC SHOCK: I. The Circulation in Shock after Abdominal Injuries (21)
THE ACTION POTENTIAL WAVES TRANSMITTED BETWEEN THE SCIATIC NERVE AND ITS SPINAL ROOTS (20)
PLEXUS-FREE PREPARATIONS OF THE SMALL INTESTINE A STUDY OF THEIR RHYTHMICITY AND OF THEIR RESPONSE TO DRUGS (19)
THE RELATION BETWEEN THE AFTER-POTENTIAL AND OXIDATIVE PROCESSES IN MEDULLATED NERVE (19)
Comparison of the structure, as revealed with the electron microscope, and the physiology of the unmedullated fibers in the skin nerves and in the olfactory nerves. (15)
THE PHARMACOLOGY OF DENERVATED MAMMALIAN MUSCLE II. SOME PHENOMENA OF ANTAGONISM, AND THE FORMATION OF LACTIC ACID IN CHEMICAL CONTRACTURE (15)
BLOOD VOLUME: A Method for its Determination with Data for Dogs, Cats and Rabbits (14)
PROPERTIES OF THE NERVE FIBERS OF SLOWEST CONDUCTION IN THE FROG (13)
RECRUITMENT OF NERVE FIBERS (13)
THE POSTSPIKE POSITIVITY OF UNMEDULLATED FIBERS OF DORSAL ROOT ORIGIN (13)
AFFERENT FUNCTION IN THE GROUP OF NERVE FIBERS OF SLOWEST CONDUCTION VELOCITY (12)
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PROTHROMBIN AND OF FREE AND COMBINED THROMBIN IN BLOOD-SERUM (11)
THE SHERRINGTON PHENOMENON (11)
Electrical Signs of Biological Activity (8)
THE END OF THE SPIKE POTENTIAL OF NERVE AND ITS RELATION TO THE BEGINNING OF THE AFTER-POTENTIAL (8)
AXON ACTION POTENTIALS IN NERVE (8)
The inseparability of the mechanical and thermal responses in muscle (6)
Augmentation of the Positive After-Potential of Nerves by Yohimbine (5)
STUDIES IN SECONDARY TRAUMATIC SHOCK: VI. Statistical Study of the Treatment of Measured Trauma with Solutions of Gum Acacia and Crystalloids (5)
AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF SURGICAL SHOCK: PRELIMINARY REPORT (5)
The Differential Action of Pressure on Fibers of Different Sizes in a Mixed Nerve. (4)
THE EFFECT OF CHEMICAL PRODUCTS OF MUSCULAR ACTIVITY ON THE FREQUENCY AND FORCE OF THE HEART BEAT (4)
STUDIES IN SECONDARY TRAUMATIC SHOCK: V. Restoration of the Plasma Volume and of the Alkali Reserve (4)
THE MECHANISM OF STIMULATION OF THE MEDULLARY CENTERS BY DECREASED OXIDATION (3)
The 80th Birthday of Sir Henry Dale, O.M., G.B.E., M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.S.: Sir Henry Dale: His Influence on Science (3)
STUDIES IN SECONDARY TRAUMATIC SHOCK: VII. Note on the Action of Hypertonic Gum Acacia and Glucose after Hemorrhage (3)
II. THE COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF NERVE FIBERS (3)
On conduction of the action potential wave through the dorsal root ganglion. (2)
HERBERT SPENCER GASSER, 1888-1963. (1)
Sir Henry Dale: his influence on science. (1)
IV. SEQUENCE OF POTENTIAL CHANGES (0)
SYMPOSIUM ON THE SYNAPSE (0)
Bibliography of Herbert Spencer Gasser 1888 - 1963 (0)
Contracture of muscle: introductory remarks. (0)
Bibliography of Joseph Erlanger 1874 - 1965 (0)
V. The Excitability Cycle (0)
The Nobel Prizes (0)
SYMPOSIUM ON THE SYNAPSE (0)
I. The Analysis of The Compound Action Potential of Nerve (0)
The Nobel Prizes (0)
Arthur S. Loevenhart (0)
III. SOME REACTIONS OF NERVE FIBERS TO ELECTRICAL STIMULATION (0)

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