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UltimApe@ultimape• almost 4 years ago

I found a video by @paulandersen showing how the ions flow down the axon and actually creates a wave of action potentials down the length of the sheath. Even uses the same gif as part of it. Really cool.https://t.co/oxNWGicpuD https://t.co/eMKSNm2BaY

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UltimApe@ultimape• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

In my head I had this modeled intuitively as similar to how a waveform signal propagates down a coax cable. You can imagine that as a series of capacitors and induction coils chaining together. But getting to see the specifics of this ion gradient cascading is more useful.

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UltimApe@ultimape• almost 4 years ago

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Now to find out what occurs when we see acute osmotic demyelination (rapid sodium loss/gain) and how that feeds into this process given the sodium and potassium pumps doing things in other cells in the brain.

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UltimApe@ultimape• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Seeing how important the electrolite bath is (he refers to it as the memory aid "a salty banana") makes me wonder: Is IBS causing me to not have as much of an action potential? Or is that compensated for somehow? https://t.co/dHn6EsgRtO

UltimApe@ultimape• over 4 years ago

My Crohn's disease symptoms causes me to shit out all my sodium. So I constantly need to replenish my bile salts. This absorption process failing also means I struggle to absorb other electrolytes. Like Calcium, Magnesium, & Potassium.https://t.co/X00sK7nrtp

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UltimApe@ultimape• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Uric acid keeps popping up on my radar the past few days. Maybe sodium butyrate and uric acid are involved somehow.https://t.co/3Ez8kYjKq5

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 6 years ago

How we define things matters: Weird diet meant to help with high blood pressure seems to impact Gout.But I'm just being salty again?"hypothesized that reducing sodium intake would lower UA levels""we found that higher sodium intake decreased serum UA"https://t.co/YV8uYShjr4

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UltimApe@ultimape• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Worth noting coax doesn't have that directionality aspect that is a physical artifact of the way the channels are arranged along the axon. I also had this in my mental model, just never a concrete reason before today. Thanks @Rainmaker1973 & @paulandersenhttps://t.co/e72s1tX2Lj

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Forming, unforming, reforming. the coding, decoding, and recoding of the assemblage. Continuously reforming gradients in the environment.Socialnet as filter. Shape as feedback loops. Directionality like neurons. A layered mealy machine powered by attention/recombinatory noise.

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UltimApe@ultimape• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Also thank you @MMMalign for sending me stuff like this. I learn so much when people send me weird things like this random gif.

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UltimApe@ultimape• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Mneumonic aid: Tick-tock."A chemomechanical clock."But it's a chain reaction.A pendulum wave.https://t.co/PTVtbRm5De

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

“When the rayleigh number for the system reaches 1708 it becomes unstable and Bernard cells can form”chaosRayleigh-Taylor InstabilitySaffman-Taylor InstabilityA bottle of oobleck under pressure.A chemomechanical clock.Tick-tock Tick-tock. Briggs-Rausher Oscillating Reaction

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UltimApe@ultimape• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Latches. Let-off valves.https://t.co/qtWtcfXNpG

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Latches, all the way down.https://t.co/vy3RJD4AM6 https://t.co/gzW96ya49s

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UltimApe@ultimape• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

(ionic) Pressure differentials. Steam boy.https://t.co/vg93CTif3K

UltimApe@ultimape• about 5 years ago

If anyone tells you that biology isn't software, ask them if they've ever thought to model complex cellular regulatory dynamics as a Mechanochemistry fused with fluidic computation theories.https://t.co/qhCAIjYZcM

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UltimApe@ultimape• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Glass break. Shockwave.https://t.co/84C6LriOwu

UltimApe@ultimape• over 4 years ago

My playlist about creating a strong AI is named after a pun about Maxwell's demon and related philosophy about entropy.https://t.co/nAEjd9bfNu

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UltimApe@ultimape• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Hivesong. Bees dance.https://t.co/Zg0vewjdd8

UltimApe@ultimape• about 5 years ago

Looking up Maxwell's demons to divine the signature of Young–Helmholtz in his work. What were they channeling?https://t.co/kw14cAUeP8https://t.co/xSUlMRlQYU

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UltimApe@ultimape• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Vibrations of ElectroMagnetic waves interacting with mechanically induced potential cascades.https://t.co/T4ThNw0qDf

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