This thorough, advanced review of the interactions between motoneurones and muscles in vertebrates discusses the significance of nerve-muscle interactions for the normal development and maintenance of the vertebrate neuromuscular system and reviews the consequences of their disruption.

Nerve-Muscle Interaction

Science & Math

Vrbová, Gerta

Jones, Rosie

Gordon, Tessa

Biological Sciences

Chapman & Hall

This autobiography describes the dramatic events in Slovakia and Hungary between 1939 and 1945 seen through the eyes of a Jewish child/teenager, Gerti. The rise of fascism in Slovakia destroyed the peaceful co-existence of the Jews with their Slovak neighbours and demoralized both groups. The threat of deportation of Jews from Slovakia to Auschwitz forced Gerti and her parents to flee to Hungary, where deportations of Jews to Auschwitz had not yet begun. There the family lived under an assumed identity. The dangers and isolation associated with this existence plunged Gerti into depression and forced her to learn skills of deception to survive. As Hitler's grip on Hungary tightened and the dangers for Jews in Hungary increased, Gerti's father was arrested. Gerti and her mother had to flee to Slovakia in the spring of 1944, where they assumed yet further false identities. During the summer of 1944 Gerti met her childhood friend Walter (Rudi Vrba), who escaped from Auschwitz and told Gerti about his first-hand experience of witnessing the mass murders there. With time the remaining few Jews in Slovakia were rounded up. Gerti and her mother were denounced and taken to the Gestapo. The knowledge of the death factories waiting for them encouraged Gerti to take a serious risk and escape. Her mother, however, gave up hope and stayed to perish in a concentration camp. Gerti, then on her own, returned to Budapest and lived through the round up of Jews and the siege, assuming the identity of a Hungarian refugee from Russian-occupied Hungary. To survive, she had to use her hard-learned skills in assessing who she could trust and whom she had to deceive.

Trust and Deceit: A Tale of Survival in Slovakia and Hungary, 1939-1945 (Library of Holocaust Testimonies)

History

Europe

Vallentine, Mitchell

<p>Book by Rose, F. Clifford, Jones, Rosemary, Vrbova, Gerta</p>

Neuromuscular Stimulation: Basic Concepts and Clinical Implications (Comprehensive Neurologic Rehabilitation, 3)

Jones, Rosemary

Rose, F. Clifford

Medical Books

Demos Medical Pub

<p>The first evidence that electrical changes can cause muscles to contract was p- vided by Galvani (1791). Galvani’s ideas about ‘animal electricity’ were explored during the 19th and 20th century when it was firmly established that ‘electricity’ is one of the most important mechanisms used for communication by the nervous system and muscle. These researches lead to the development of ever more soph- ticated equipment that could either record the electrical changes in nerves and muscles, or elicit functional changes by electrically stimulating these structures. It was indeed the combination of these two methods that elucidated many of the basic principles about the function of the nervous system. Following these exciting findings, it was discovered that electrical stimulation and the functions elicited by it also lead to long-term changes in the properties of nerves and particularly muscles. Recent findings help us to understand the mec- nisms by which activity induced by electrical stimulation can influence mature, fully differentiated cells, in particular muscles, blood vessels and nerves. Electrically elicited activity determines the properties of muscle fibres by activating a sequence of signalling pathways that change the gene expression of the muscle. Thus, elect- cal activity graduated from a simple mechanism that is used to elicit muscle c- traction, to a system that could induce permanent changes in muscles and modify most of its characteristic properties.</p>

Application of Muscle/Nerve Stimulation in Health and Disease (Advances in Muscle Research, 4)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Hudlicka, Olga

Schaefer Centofanti, Kristin

Exercise & Fitness

Springer

Betrayed Generation: Shattered Hopes and Disillusion in Post War Czechoslovakia

Zuza Books

This book examines the scientific principles and practical applications of electrotherapy. It explains how electrical stimulation activates and transforms muscle, how it works on the cardiovascular system compared to active exercise and how it can be used.

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

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