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Birdsey Renshaw October 10, — November 23, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] was an American electrophysiologist and neuroscientist.

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He is known for his discovery of the eponymous Renshaw cells [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and the Renshaw inhibition recurrent inhibition , which is a negative feedback mechanism associated with the Renshaw cell action. In he graduated with an M. There he learned how to record cerebral action potentials using amplifiers and cathode-ray tubes.

He developed microelectrodes from ultra-clean Pyrex pipettes and applied the microelectrodes to make extracellular recordings of action potentials found in the mammalian hippocampus and cortex. In , after receiving his PhD. In Renshaw died of polio within three days of the onset of symptoms.

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In Eccles , Fatt , and Koketsu used intracellular recording to confirm Renshaw's findings and introduced the term "Renshaw cell". Army captain in the Chemical Warfare Service. The younger of her two brothers was Samuel Perkins Hayes Jr. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version.

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