Assertion: nervous system | /r/MadeOf | many mechanisms
Facets:
value: without requiring an external stimulus
type: OTHER
value: for generating patterns of activity
type: PURPOSE
value: for maintaining cell excitability
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: However, experimental studies of electrophysiology, beginning in the early 20th century and reaching high productivity by the 1940s, showed that the nervous system contains many mechanisms for maintaining cell excitability and generating patterns of activity intrinsically, without requiring an external stimulus.
text: However, experimental studies of electrophysiology, beginning in the early 20th century and reaching high productivity by the 1940s, showed that the nervous system contains many mechanisms for generating patterns of activity intrinsically, without requiring an external stimulus (Piccolino, 2002).