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120: 205:, the individual muscle fibre does not respond at all if the stimulus is too weak. However, it responds maximally when the stimulus rises to threshold. The contraction is not increased if the stimulus strength is further raised. Stronger stimuli bring more muscle fibres into action and thus the tension of a muscle increases as the strength of the stimulus applied to it rises. 139:
below threshold strength fails to elicit a propagated spike potential. If it is of threshold strength or over, a spike (a nervous impulse) of maximum magnitude is set up. Either the single fibre does not respond with spike production, or it responds to the utmost of its ability under the conditions
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with 1850 amplification, Adrian noticed that when the muscle preparation was left to hang, it produced oscillations; yet when supported, no such activity occurred. Later with the help of Yngve Zotterman, Adrian isolated and stimulated one sensory fibre. The impulses externally on the fibre were
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behave as a single unit, so that an adequate stimulus normally produces a full contraction of either the auricles or ventricles. The force of the contraction obtained depends on the state in which the muscles fibres find themselves. In the case of
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An induction shock produces a contraction or fails to do so according to its strength; if it does so at all, it produces the greatest contraction that can be produced by any strength of stimulus in the condition of the muscle at the
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is stimulated, then as the exciting stimulus is progressively increased above a threshold, a larger number of fibres respond. The minimal effective (i.e., 
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uniform: "as simple as the dots in Morse code". Stimulus strength was manipulated and the resulting frequency measured, yielding a relationship where f∝sn .
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As long as the stimulus reaches the threshold, the full response would be given. Larger stimulus does not result in a larger response, vice versa.
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at the moment. This property of the single nerve fibre is termed the all-or-none relationship. This relationship holds only for the unit of
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in 1909. The individual fibres of nerves also respond to stimulation according to the all-or-none principle.
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is independent of the strength of the exciting stimulus, provided the latter is adequate. An
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the unit is the individual muscle fiber and for the heart the unit is the entire
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This article is about the physiological principle. For the finance term, see
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The above account deals with the response of a single nerve fibre. If a
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is stimulated, it will always give a maximal response and produce an
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Cannon WB (1922). "Biographical Memoir: Henry Pickering Bowdich".
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Stimuli too weak to produce a spike do, however, set up a local
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is excitable, i.e., it responds to external stimuli by
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in 1925 from a set of crosscut muscle fibres. Using a
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It was first established by the American physiologist
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Index

All or none
Zero–one law
physiology
nerve fibre
electrical impulse
amplitude
Henry Pickering Bowditch
contraction
heart muscle
skeletal muscle
Keith Lucas
action potential
Edgar Adrian
thermionic triode valve amplifier

action potential
nerve fibre
electrical stimulus
tissue
nervous tissue
nerve cell
skeletal muscle
auricles
ventricles
electrotonus
nerve trunk
threshold
Heart muscle
contracting
auricles

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