Soon, Richard came back with more mice and began to design experiments continuously, conducting controlled tests, controlled variable tests, and repeated tests.
In the end, Richard discovered that some situations were more complicated than imagined.
For example, the performance of mice is not only the strengthening of fear signals, but more accurately the speed of nerve signal transmission. To put it simply, mice react faster and can respond to external stimuli in a shorter time, so they can continuously avoid scalpel attacks.
Richard wasn't sure what the principle was, but it was much more important than the "one-eyed violent potion".
In other words, the dark blue extract in the blood of "Griffin Colorful Bird", which was regarded as an impurity by One-Eye, was not an impurity at all, but a treasure, which was more valuable than the entire "One-Eye's Violent Potion".
Improve reaction speed!
This is not just a one or two point difference, sometimes it can play a crushing role.
Just like the difference between 59 points and 60 points, or the difference between 99 points and 100 points, they represent two worlds.
Generally speaking, the nerve signal transmission in the human body is about 100m/s, which means that even if the brain reacts to something, there will be a certain delay in the body trying to take action.
Therefore, all explosive movements must have a start and reaction time.
For example, in modern sprint competitions on earth, the process from the referee firing the signal gun to the athletes starting off must exceed 0.1 seconds. This is the reaction limit time calculated through scientific calculations. If the starting time is less than 0.1 seconds, it will be directly judged as a false start and disqualified.
So what would happen if the activation and reaction time were reduced, for example, by one-fifth, one-third, or even one-half
It would be scary.
In combat, especially close combat, sometimes a quick action can determine the outcome. If each action can be half as fast as the enemy, it is a complete joke.
"How does this dark blue extract extracted from blood work? How does it speed up neurotransmission?" Richard's eyes flashed, guessing, "Covering the 'Nodes of Ranvier' to speed up the transmission of nerve fibers. Speed? Or changing the neurotransmitter delivery process?"
Generally speaking, nerve signal transmission in the human body relies on nerve fibers, which are composed of multiple neuron cells. A neuron cell, according to its structure, can be divided into two parts: cell body and neurite. Neurites are divided into two types: dendrites and axons. According to function, neuron cells can be divided into four parts: receiving area, triggering area, conduction area and output area.
When a nerve cell receives a signal or stimulus from another cell, the trigger zone (dendrite) will first generate an action potential, which is quickly transmitted through the conductive zone (axon) and reaches the output zone (axon terminal).
Neurotransmitters are synthesized in the output area and packaged in synaptic vesicles, and through diffusion the neurotransmitter molecules reach the receptor area (dendrite) of the next neuron cell.
The receptor in the receptor area of the next neuron cell combines with the neurotransmitter to produce a biochemical reaction, which in turn causes an action potential to appear in the trigger area of the next neuron cell and continuously transmits the signal.
In order to speed up the transmission of nerve speed, generally speaking, there are only two methods.
First, speed up the process of "conduction zone".
Second, speed up the process from the "output area" to the "receptive area" of the next neuron cell.
To achieve the first method, the best way is to reduce the weakening of the signal. In this regard, vertebrates have a great advantage.
It can be imagined that the entire nerve is connected by sections of wires (neuron cells). When the current signal flows through the wires, the signal strength will weaken. What vertebrates cheat compared to other creatures is that they put a shameless insulating shell on the wire. This shell is called myelin, which can ensure that the signal strength is minimally weakened and can be transmitted faster.
But the problem is that the myelin sheath is not very tight, and there are gaps in the middle. If you look at it with a microscope, it is segmented one by one. The gaps between the segments are called "Ranvier's nodes", and the "Ranvier's nodes" are The wires (neuronal axons) are still exposed. If there are fewer nodes of Ranvier, fewer wires (neuronal axons) are exposed and signals can travel faster.
If you want to achieve the second method, the best way is to change the way neurotransmitters are delivered. Because the transmission of this process is divided into many steps such as neurotransmitter production, packaging, diffusion, reception, combination, reaction, etc., it is extremely cumbersome. If it can be optimized, even if it is just one step, the speedup will be huge if we look at the transmission of thousands of neuron cells.
So how exactly does the dark blue liquid work? Which method is used to speed up neural response
Richard's eyes flickered, he thought quickly, and finally decided to test it himself.
Taking a deep breath, Richard picked up the configured "Richard's Unknown Potion" and took a sip. He closed his eyes and carefully felt the changes. After a while, he took another sip, increased the dose, continued to feel, and felt deeply. Invokes psychic power to perceive.
Changes occurred, and Richard frowned little by little.
After a while, Richard's brows relaxed, he opened his eyes, his eyes were shining brightly, he looked at his hands, and said to himself: "Is that so..."
In Richard's perception, it is not the first method or the second method that speeds up neurotransmission, but the third method that goes beyond cognition.
What the mind transmits is a signal, not a specific substance. In theory, as long as the signal transmission is successful, the brain can react and transmit the brain's reaction signal to the corresponding part, it doesn't matter the process.
After countless years of development, the entire animal kingdom has evolved a complete nervous system for this function. This system includes large and small structures, sophisticated and complex.
But... what if this system is abandoned
Just like, to transport a bunch of things, a complete railway system has been developed. It is very efficient, but at the same time it is efficient, it also limits further development. Wouldn't it be better to abandon the railway system and use planes directly for air transportation
Richard is still unable to completely determine everything, but he has some vague guesses, that is, the reason why the drug accelerates the nerve reflex speed is probably not relying on the electrical signal transmission of neuron cells, but relying on the generation of a Special substances to transmit signals.
This substance does not exist on the modern earth. It is a specialty of the current world and is similar to free energy elements.
Free energy elements can run along the channels (blood vessels, nerves) in the human body, reach a specific state, and then be excited and released outside the body to play a role.
The special substance produced can also run along the channels of the human body, attached to nerves but not completely bound by them. It can find the shortest and fastest path, transmit it to the brain at a speed exceeding the speed of nerve signals, and then return the signal.
It can be simply understood that the nerve is an ordinary broadband line, buried deep underground (in the body). The speed of this broadband line is pretty good, but it is not too fast and there is a certain delay. Afterwards, it was transformed and a new optical fiber broadband was buried along the lines buried by the nerve. The speed was greatly increased, so fast that it was explosive, and the delay was greatly reduced.
Although this optical fiber line is temporary, requires drinking potion to appear, and has a certain duration, the cost is high, and it cannot be used continuously in daily life. But over time, if used properly, it can have unimaginable effects.
Unimaginable effect!