Humoral Agents in Nervous Activity: With Special Reference to Chromatophores

by G H Parker

Originally published in 1932, this book examines how hormones and nervous impulses affect the body, with special reference to animals with colour-changing abilities. Parker gives examples from various areas of the animal kingdom, both vertebrates and invertebrates, to demonstrate how the stimulation of certain sensory organs and nerves can produce very different effects and to draw wider conclusions about the role that 'nervous secretion' can play...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107502292
• ISBN13: 9781107502291
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"