How Is Mechanical Interlocking Accomplished

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How is mechanical interlocking accomplished?

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Squid Axon Experiments

Classic scientific experiments conducted to understand the properties of nerve cells by studying the giant axon of squid.

Alan Hodgkin

A British physiologist and biophysicist who, along with Andrew Huxley, elucidated the ionic mechanism underlying nerve impulse transmission, work for which they received the Nobel Prize.

Andrew Huxley

A British physiologist and biophysicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1963, for his work on the basis of nerve impulse transmission.

Glutamate

An important neurotransmitter in the brain that plays a key role in learning and memory, also serving as a precursor for the synthesis of GABA in neurons.