LANGLEY, John Newport
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On the local paralysis of peripheral ganglia, and on the connexion of different classes of nerve fibres with them.Proc. roy. Soc. 46, 423-31, 1889.Langley and Dickinson studied the effect of nicotine on nerve fibers, and were able by this means to make a thorough investigation of the distribution of nerve fibers. Subjects: NEUROSCIENCE › NERVOUS SYSTEM › Peripheral Autonomic Nervous System, Neurophysiology |
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On reflex action from sympathetic ganglia.J. Physiol. (Lond.), 16, 410-40, 1894.Subjects: NEUROSCIENCE › NERVOUS SYSTEM › Peripheral Nerves / Nerve Impulses |
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On the reaction of cells and of nerve-endings to certain poisons, chiefly as regards the reaction of striated muscle to nicotine and to curari.J. Physiol. (Lond), 33, 374-413, London, 1905.Langley introduced the concept of a receptor substance present in the biological object with which a drug has to interact in order to exert its biological effect. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link. Subjects: BIOCHEMISTRY, PHARMACOLOGY › Pharmacodynamics, TOXICOLOGY › Neurotoxicology |
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The autonomic nervous system.Cambridge, England: W. Heffer, 1921.Langley divided the autonomic nervous system into (1) the orthosympathetic, and (2) the parasympathetic; he defined it as an efferent system. Subjects: NEUROSCIENCE › NERVOUS SYSTEM › Peripheral Autonomic Nervous System |