| Description |
Scientists began to suspect that there is a link between electricity and animal physiology over two hundred years ago. Today it is well established that most, if not all, living cells function as tiny biological batteries and that fluctuating electrical potentials are associated with physiological processes. The widespread use of electrocardiograms, electroencephalograms, and electromyograms as diagnostic tools are one evidence of the significance of these bioelectric potentials in man. Recently, and possibly more far reaching, it has been proposed that such basic functions as growth, healing, and biological cycles in living organisms are controlled by an analog data transmission system which uses varying levels of direct current as its signal. Underlying much of the research leading to this hypothesis has been a renewed interest in a somewhat forgotten physiological phenomenon known as the current of injury. |
