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  2. Neural accommodation - Wikipedia

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    During neuronal accommodation, the slowly rising depolarisation drives the activation and inactivation, as well as the potassium gates simultaneously and never evokes action potential. Failure to evoke action potential by ramp depolarisation of any strength had been a great puzzle until Hodgkin and Huxley created their physical model of action ...

  3. Accommodation (vertebrate eye) - Wikipedia

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    Two horse lenses suspended on water by cling wrap with four approximately parallel lasers directed through them. The 1 cm spaced grid indicates a near focus focal length of around 6 cm. Accommodation is the process by which the vertebrate eye changes optical power to maintain a clear image or focus on an object as its

  4. Acclimatization - Wikipedia

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    Acclimatization or acclimatisation (also called acclimation or acclimatation) is the process in which an individual organism adjusts to a change in its environment (such as a change in altitude, temperature, humidity, photoperiod, or pH), allowing it to maintain fitness across a range of environmental conditions.

  5. Accommodation reflex - Wikipedia

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    Light from a single point of a distant object and light from a single point of a near object being brought to a focus. The accommodation reflex (or accommodation-convergence reflex) is a reflex action of the eye, in response to focusing on a near object, then looking at a distant object (and vice versa), comprising coordinated changes in vergence, lens shape (accommodation) and pupil size.

  6. Adaptation (eye) - Wikipedia

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    Once an individual enters a dark setting most of their rod cells will already be accommodated to the dark and be able to transmit visual signals to the brain without an accommodation period. [ 30 ] The concept of red lenses for dark adaptation is based upon experimentation by Antoine Béclère and his early work with radiology.

  7. Cellular compartment - Wikipedia

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    Cellular compartments in cell biology comprise all of the closed parts within the cytosol of a eukaryotic cell, usually surrounded by a single or double lipid layer membrane. These compartments are often, but not always, defined as membrane-bound organelles. The formation of cellular compartments is called compartmentalization.

  8. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    Chemistry, not moral failing, accounts for the brain’s unwinding. In the laboratories that study drug addiction, researchers have found that the brain becomes conditioned by the repeated dopamine rush caused by heroin. “The brain is not designed to handle it,” said Dr. Ruben Baler, a scientist with the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

  9. Crosstalk (biology) - Wikipedia

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    One example of crosstalk between proteins in a signalling pathway can be seen with cyclic adenosine monophosphate's (cAMP) role in regulating cell proliferation by interacting with the mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase pathway. cAMP is a compound synthesized in cells by adenylate cyclase in response to a variety of extracellular signals.