Animations

To view the animations you need the Flash3
plugin.  If you can see the animation at the
right of the granule cell migration along radial
glial cell you have the correct plug-in to view
the other animations.

• Channel gating during an action potential
  (figure 4-9)

• Propagation of the action potential.
  (figures 4-10 and 4-11)

• Synaptic vesicle fusion and neurotransmitter release.
  (figure 5-9)

• Comparison of direct and indirect neurotransmitter actions:
  ligand-gated vs. G-protein-coupled receptor.
  (figures 5-5, 6-8, 6-9, 11-9 and 11-10)

• Calcium release from sarcoplasmic reticulum, initiation of muscle contration and actin/myosin interactions and filament sliding during muscle contraction.
  (figures 7-7, 7-8 and 7-13)

• Photoisomerization of rhodopsin.
  (figures 15-8 and 15-9)

• Center-surround receptive field; simulated action potential firing with light placed in different positions in receptive field.
  (figure 15-20)

• Mechanosensory transduction in hair cells.
  (figure 17-4)

• Basilar membrane oscillations at different sound frequencies.
  (figure 17-7)

• Granule cell migration along radial glial cells (see above)
  (figure 19-10)