ADAPTATION OF CUTANEOUS TACTILE RECEPTORS V. THE RELEASE OF POTASSIUM FROM FROG SKIN BY MECHANICAL STIMULATION

Hoagland , Hudson; Rubin , Morton A.

doi:10.1085/jgp.19.6.939

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ADAPTATION OF CUTANEOUS TACTILE RECEPTORS : V. THE RELEASE OF POTASSIUM FROM FROG SKIN BY MECHANICAL STIMULATION

Hudson Hoagland,

Hudson Hoagland

From the Physiological Laboratory, Clark University, Worcester

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Morton A. Rubin

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Hudson Hoagland

From the Physiological Laboratory, Clark University, Worcester

Morton A. Rubin

From the Physiological Laboratory, Clark University, Worcester

Accepted: November 01 1935

Online ISSN: 1540-7748

Print ISSN: 0022-1295

Copyright, 1936, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research

1936

J Gen Physiol (1936) 19 (6): 939–942.

https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.19.6.939

Potassium is released from the epithelial cells of frog's skin on stimulation by an interrupted air jet. This evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that potassium is involved in the adaptation of the tactile nerve endings in frog's skin.

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