A blink in history's eye has brought us an understanding of electricity, and with it a revolution in human life. From the frog leg twitch experiments of Galvani and the batteries of Volta, we have progressed to telegraphs, motors, telephones, computers, and the Internet. In the same period, the ubiquitous role of electricity in animal and plant life has become clear. A great milestone in this journey was the elucidation of electrical signaling by Hodgkin & Huxley in 1952. This chapter gives a personal account of a small part of this story, the transformation of the rather abstract electrical conductances of Hodgkin & Huxley into the more tangible gated ion channel.

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轴突之间的生活。

历史的眨眼使我们对电有了理解，随之而来的是人类生活的一场革命。从Galvani的蛙脚抽搐实验和Volta的电池实验中，我们已经发展到电报，电动机，电话，计算机和Internet。在同一时期，电力在动植物生命中的普遍作用已经很明显。此过程中的一个重要里程碑是1952年霍奇金与赫x黎（Hodgkin＆Huxley）对电信号的阐明。本章仅叙述了这一故事的一小部分，即将霍奇金与赫x黎的相当抽象的电导转变为更明显的门控离子通道。