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THE TOXIC ACTION OF COMPOUNDS ON ISOLATED MUSCLE REGARDED AS A CHEMICAL CHANGE
Author(s) -
Veley V. H.
Publication year - 1910
Publication title -
quarterly journal of experimental physiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.925
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1469-445X
pISSN - 0370-2901
DOI - 10.1113/expphysiol.1910.sp000067
Subject(s) - action (physics) , decomposition , chemistry , reagent , chemical reaction , excited state , computational chemistry , organic chemistry , physics , quantum mechanics
An attempt has been made in this communication to show that living muscular tissue behaves as if it contained not only proteins, as such, but even their products of decomposition or hydrolysis; or, to put the matter otherwise, the living muscle behaves as a lifeless chemical reagent. The author and his co‐workers have been surprised that the action of a drug upon muscle, when excited by induction shocks, should have yielded results not greatly inferior in accuracy to those obtained in the case of reactions between chemical compounds, highly refined, when under physical conditions rigidly exact. It is, of course, true that there are certain manifest difficulties, but this equally applies to other reactions and other theories in the domain of pure or applied chemistry.