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Temperature and electrophysiology?

kenneth collins kenneth.p.collins at worldnet.att.net
Tue Dec 28 07:01:57 EST 2004


Further discussion added, in-line,
below.

[What the hell? :-]

"kenneth collins" <kenneth.p.collins at worldnet.att.net> wrote in message 
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| "r norman" <rsn_ at _comcast.net> wrote in message news:d681t0p6jt96fd2504siedo85mj7n2d8li at 4ax.com...
|| On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 17:51:06 GMT, "kenneth collins"
|| <kenneth.p.collins at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
||
|| >"r norman" <rsn_ at _comcast.net> wrote in message
| news:ppd0t0l3kv1tjatr8j95rtdg42l6lmmop4 at 4ax.com...
|| >| On 27 Dec 2004 08:01:23 -0800, tehgabriel at web.de (tomte) wrote:
|| >|
|| >| >Hi!
|| >| >
|| >| >I had a debate with a collegue of mine, wether an increase of
|| >| >temperature from 34.5°C to 36°C may lead to significantly different
|| >| >effects in whole-cell patch-clamp recordings (I refer to experiments
|| >| >on rat brain slices).
|| >| >Of course there's no question that one may obtain different results
|| >| >when experiments were done at 10°C or 20°C. But what's the situation
|| >| >in the special case i mentioned at the beginning (sligthly
|| >| >temp.difference in a regime close to body temperature).
|| >| >What's your opinion/experience?
|| >| >
|| >| >Any comment would be appreciated
|| >| >Cheers,
|| >| >Thomas
|| >| >
|| >| >p.s.:
|| >| >I would be very grateful for references
|| >|
|| >| A process with a Q10 of 2 (rate doubles for a 10C increase in
|| >| temperature) would change by less than 4% for a 1/2 degree change.  If
|| >| the process were even more  temperature sensitive, a Q10 of 5, say, it
|| >| would change by about 8% for the same temperature change.
|| >|
|| >| A change of several degrees would produce small but noticeable
|| >| changes.  But a fraction of a degree is another story. In most cases
|| >| it would be hard to control the temperature to such a fine degree.
|| >|
|| >| Then, note that body temperature is not really constant, but
|| >| fluctuates with time of day, metabolic state, health, etc.  Even brain
|| >| temperature in mammals, generally regulated much more finely than core
|| >| body temperature, will fluctuate. It is unlikely that small changes
|| >| will produce any significant changes in function that are meaningful
|| >| to the cell even though they may be detected by a cell physiologist.
|| >
|| >Hi Dr. Norman,
|| >
|| >Before I "disagree", do I need to express
|| >the esteem in which I hold you? :-]
|| >
|| >It's =way= up-there.
|| >
|| >But I do =Respectfully= disagree that even
|| >the slightest variation of temperature is not
|| >significant with respect to the 3-D energy-
|| >dynamics that occur within nervous sys-
|| >tems.
|| >
|| >Yes, the brain is awesomely vasculated,
|| >and that carries off excess heat, but
|| >even such can only proceed in accord
|| >with the body temp set-point, which is
|| >varied in "fever" dynamics.
|| >
|| >This's important be-cause of the long-
|| >standing known facts of the shifting of
|| >the black body power spectrum toward
|| >its high-frequency 'end' as TempK is
|| >increased. This corresponds rigorously
|| >to a variation in "vibrational" frequency
|| >at the 'atomic' level, and the rigorously-
|| >correlated functional variability stands
|| >verified [if, thus far, unrecognized as be-
|| >ing what it, in fact, is :-]
|| >
|| >At the level of molecular dynamics small
|| >changes in "vibrational" frequency =must=
|| >result in relatively-large variations in func-
|| >tionality. [The "shampoo experiment" dis-
|| >closes [rigorously] why it must be so.]
|| >
|| >As I've reiterated in long-former posts,
|| >it's a virtual certainty that this is some
|| >of why "fever" is a functional "mode"
|| >that's been 'engineered' into the Biology
|| >by evolutionary dynamics.
|| >
|| >One can even perceive the "washed-
|| >out-ness" that's happening within one
|| >while one is enduring "fever" -- I mean,
|| >one can literally perceive that one's
|| >thought processes, for instance, are
|| >not occurring 'normally' -- that they
|| >are "washed-out" -- that "thought" be-
|| >comes relatively 'powerless'.
|| >
|| >There has to be something of great
|| >worth for it to be so routinely "pur-
|| >chased" at so great a "price".
|| >
|| >And what's going on is falt-out-ob-
|| >vious within 3-D energydynamics
|| >that I've not yet discussed. [I was
|| >going to discuss them if I'd not been
|| >'tossed-out' of sci.physics.research.]
|| >
|| >The DNA is "addressed" differentially
|| >with respect to body temp, and, per-
|| >haps more-importantly, so is the DNA
|| >and molecular processes of disease
|| >agents.
|| >
|| >Again, my hypothesis is that elevations
|| >in body temp impose disorder upon
|| >the molecular functionalities of disease
|| >agents, which, in and of itself, because
|| >it's so 'atomically'-generalized, is prob-
|| >ably insufficient to get the disease-de-
|| >struction job done, but it definitely
|| >makes the job of immune-system ag-
|| >ents easier by, literally, "shoving"
|| >things in the direction of disorder [in
|| >the direction of WDB2T] -- in this,
|| >literally pointing-the-Direction in
|| >which immune-system molecular dyn-
|| >amics are to 'move'.
|| >
|| >Some new hardware needs to be
|| >developed to do it, but everything
|| >that I've discussed in this post is
|| >scannable.
|| >
|| >Some of what's in my "disagreement" is
|| >in-there be-cause of what's been my
|| >Failure to carry the discussion of NDT
|| >and TH forward sufficiently.
|| >
|| >I've been carefully monitoring the col-
|| >lective amygdalar "speed-limit", trying
|| >not to "violate" it, but my doing so has
|| >kept the discussion from getting, rapidly,
|| >to where it, ultimately, needs to "go".
|| >
|| >Part of it is that I rewrote Physics, but
|| >no one else understands that rewritten
|| >stuff yet.
|| >
|| >[It'd be easier in-person. :-]
|| >
|| >Cheers, Dr. Norman, ken [k. p. collins]
|| >
|| >
||
|| I appreciate your sentiments about my contributions here.
||
|| Your own work, as you well know, deviates rather substantially from
|| classical "doctrine."  Although my politics is rather distinctly
|| different, in technical terms about matters of science I am a very
|| traditional conservative, hewing closely to the "party line".  You do
|| say you "rewrite Physics, but no one else understands that rewritten
|| stuff yet."  I agree you rewrote something and the no one else
|| including me understands it.  Unfortunately, some of your arguments,
|| such as the ones here regarding energy, black-body radiation, and
|| vibrational frequencies are rather a bit off the mark (in my
|| old-fashioned traditional view).  And these tend to be very
|| off-putting when making decisions on how much time to spend going over
|| you material.

I understand.

|| A change of 1/2 degree C is less than a 0.2% change in absolute
|| temperature.  There is no significant change in black body radiation
|| that occurs as a result -- Stefan's law says that the total energy
|| emitted would increase by less than 1% (fourth power relationship) and
|| Wien's law says the peak wavelength would change less than 0.2%
|| (inverse proportionality).  These won't make any significant changes
|| in anything.  The wavelengths are already deep in the infrared and
|| would just very slightly modify some molecular vibrations.  Again,
|| these types of variations are trivial compared with the normal
|| temperature fluctuations experienced by neurons in everyday life.

Forgive me, please, Dr. Norman,
if I "brain-storm" ["range widely" within
my ongoing TD E/I-minimization
dynamics].

The stuff you cite, above, doesn't see
the continuous flow-dynamics that are
disclosed in the "shampoo experiment".

The energy isn't distributed uniformly.

Rather, it varies with the flow -- so one
cannot rely-in "Stefan's Law" and "Wein's
Law" -- because they presume uniformly-
distributed energy, not energy that's non-
uniformly-distributed within, nevertheless,
continuous flow-dynamics.

Did you do the "shampoo experiment"?
It's really easy to do, at least for one
Temp. Just let a "thread" of shampoo
flow into a dish of shampoo [no bub-
bles allowed].

If you do it, you'll be rewarded by seeing
a lot of what I'm talking about.

=All of the same molecules= remain in-
there during all trials [despite TempK],
but the "squirting" sub-dynamics can be
tuned continuously by just varying TempK.

And relatively-small changes in TempK
yield relatively-large [easily-observed]
changes in the collective behavior, even
though, in every trial, all that's in-there
are the same molecules and more, or
less, "heat".

The "squirts" literally become less-mas-
sive, continuously, as TempK is increased,
and the distances that the "squirts" travel
increase [and vice versa].

It's flat-out easy to see how to engineer
molecular "tweezers" using nothing more
than what's easily-observable in the above,
and the normal molecular millieux of nerv-
ous systems..

And that's exactly what I see happening,
on the molecular scale within "fever" 3-D
energydynamics.

More below.

|| There do exist situations where the system has singular points or
|| bifurcations and very small changes in a system parameter (like T)
|| makes sudden large changes in behavior.  There is no known physical
|| chemistry like that for changes in cellular biochemicals showing a
|| state or functional transition in the 30 - 40 C range.  And for good
|| reason -- as I pointed out, the cells are constantly subject to these
|| fluctuations.  Furthermore, all cellular processes in neurons are
|| shared widely across the animal kingdom, including animals whose
|| brains function well across extreme temperature changes -- 0 C to 30
|| or 40 C.

But the relatively-small "entirety"
of disease agents is =completely=
dependent upon the stasis pro-
vided by the host organism. It's
not equipped to regulate such stasis
of its own accord. The point, here,
being that it's precisely because of
this complete dependence that small
TempK variations can have inordinate
effects upon disease agents.

More added at the end.

| I stand on what I've posted.
|
| You're overlooking some sig-
| nificant stuff, Dr. Norman.
|
| 1. "Fever" dynamics present a
| =generalized= TempK variation
| that 'ignores' any TempK "fluctua-
| tions" that, somehow, make it past
| the nervous system's exquisite "rad-
| iator".
|
| 2. Every ion [and 'atom] experi-
| ences the small TempK variation,
| and it's the cumulative effect that
| determines the functional altera-
| tions that I referred to in my pre-
| vious post [and long-former "NL-P
| Medicine" posts, and my long-former
| discussions of Tapered Harmony].
|
| Yes, I've worked-through stuff
| that others do not, yet, have ac-
| cess to, but that's not because
| I've not offerred to share that
| stuff with folks, and I'm going
| to continue to expect that folks
| who want such access will meet
| with me in-person.
|
| Be-cause it's just getting too-
| "strange" that no one will do so.
| I have to allow for the "clone-
| server" alternative because I've
| sufficient data to substantiate
| it's possibility.

The 'difficulty' of 'unfamiliar' stuff
is what NDT is all about.

Yes, replacing 'discrete' Physics
with Continuous Physics is 'un-
familiar' and, therefore, 'difficult',
but it's not whether or not some-
thing is 'difficult' that determines
it's worth in-Science.

It's relationship to Truth is what
determines its worth.

NDT is about seeing the difference
inherent, and seeing it Safely.

So, forgive me, please, if I pur-
sue that goal :-]

| Cheers, [...]

And I do =mean= Cheers, Dr.
Norman.

I like to get and set  my "Direction"
internally :-]

Cheers-again :-]

ken [k. p. collins] 





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