COMMENTARY ON THE PLEASURES OF SOLVING IMPOSSIBLE PROBLEMS OF EXPERIMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY
- 1 January 2006
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Annual Reviews in Annual Review of Physiology
- Vol. 68 (1) , 1-28
- https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.physiol.68.040504.151957
Abstract
▪ Abstract This commentary presents a series of examples of “impossible experimental problems” that we have encountered over the years in addressing various challenging questions in physiology. We aim to show how stimulating the challenges of physiology can be and demonstrate how our naive invocation of methods from disparate fields of science and engineering has led to delightful resolutions of physiological challenges that were utterly new to this intrepid interdisciplinary researcher.Keywords
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