Squid axons impaled with a microelectrode have been treated with concentrations of xylene and benzene such that there is no change in threshold or resting potential at 20°C., while the spike height declines about 10 mv. A decrease in ambient temperature results in large, reversible, increases in threshold. While neither low temperature nor the added blocking agent induces repetitive firing from a single stimulus, the two treatments when combined do yield repetitive responses which commence at a sharply defined temperature. The alteration in the membrane responsible for the effects observed can be described by saying that there has been a large increase in the inductance of the equivalent electric circuit, and the temperature coefficient of the apparent membrane inductance has a Q10 = 5.
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September 20 1958
OSCILLATORY BEHAVIOR OF THE SQUID AXON MEMBRANE POTENTIAL
R. A. Sjodin,
R. A. Sjodin
From the Biophysical Laboratory, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, and the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
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L. J. Mullins
L. J. Mullins
From the Biophysical Laboratory, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, and the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
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R. A. Sjodin
From the Biophysical Laboratory, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, and the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
L. J. Mullins
From the Biophysical Laboratory, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, and the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
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March 04 1958
Online Issn: 1540-7748
Print Issn: 0022-1295
Copyright, 1959, by The Rockefeller Institute
1958
J Gen Physiol (1958) 42 (1): 39–47.
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March 04 1958
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R. A. Sjodin, L. J. Mullins; OSCILLATORY BEHAVIOR OF THE SQUID AXON MEMBRANE POTENTIAL . J Gen Physiol 20 September 1958; 42 (1): 39–47. doi: https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.42.1.39
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