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depolarization bioelectric potential hyperpolarization repolarization bioelectric current diastolic depolarization passive spread dc potential equilibrium potential threshold potential metabolism death coloration sex sleep photosynthesis biological development aging mimicry nutrition

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Galvani, Luigi

Luigi Galvani

Italian physician and physicist

Du Bois-Reymond, engraving, c. 1900.

Emil Heinrich Du Bois-Reymond

German physiologist

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