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It may very well be that as a result of Luigi Galvani’s experimental studies, commenced in 1786, the areas related to the investigation of charge and field effects on biosystems have evolved. A significant gap in time occurred before the pioneer investigations of Paul Ehrlich were presented in 1885. He demonstrated that different animal organs had the ability to reduce dyes and that this was related to the organs’ oxygen requirements. His findings stimulated numerous investigations on the redox potentials of many different biological and biochemical systems using indicator dyes. During this early period, great strides were made by electrophysiologists which led to significant observations and an understanding of ion transport phenomena in plant and animal systems.
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Allen, M.J., Cleary, S.F., Hawkridge, F.M. (1989). Prologue. In: Allen, M.J., Cleary, S.F., Hawkridge, F.M. (eds) Charge and Field Effects in Biosystems—2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0557-6_1
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