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What are the meanings of calcium in physiology?

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Experimental hypertext description of the roles of calcium in physiology - interelated to ideas from Barthes, Foucault, Ulrich Beck, and Umberto Eco.

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• Calcium
• Calmodulin
• Chemiosmotic roles of calcium
• The 'High-energy bond' 'myth'
• Neurological roles of calcium
• Symbolic codes: Roland Barthes
• Physiological roles of calcium
• Material history: Michel Foucault
• Developmental roles of calcium
• Reflexive meaning: Ulrich Beck
• Genetic roles of calcium
• Linguistic plurality: Umberto Eco
• Protein computation
• Calcium, Mathematics and Computation

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Created 22/5/99