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Volume 23, Issue 6
20 July 1940
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Article| July 20 1940

SUMMATION OF ELECTRICAL POTENTIAL OF LIVING MEMBRANES (FROG SKIN): A MODEL OF THE ELECTRICAL ORGAN OF FISHES

T. Cunliffe Barnes
T. Cunliffe Barnes
From the Osborn Zoological Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven
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T. Cunliffe Barnes
From the Osborn Zoological Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven
Received: April 17 1940
Online ISSN: 1540-7748
Print ISSN: 0022-1295
Copyright, 1940, The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
1940
J Gen Physiol (1940) 23 (6): 729–732.
https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.23.6.729
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April 17 1940

Frog skins arranged "in series" in tubes of Ringer's solution exhibit summation of electrical potential which helps to explain the nature of electrical fields in the organism as a whole and in the electrical organ of fishes.

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