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R GUTTMAN

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PubMed1962

Effect of temperature on the potential and current thresholds of axon membrane.

The effect of temperature on the potential and current thresholds of the squid giant axon membrane was measured with gross external electrodes. A central segment of the axon, 0.8 mm long and in sea water, was isolated by flowing low conductance, isoosmotic sucrose solution on each side; both ends were depolarized in isoosmotic KCl. Measured biphasic square wave currents at five cycles per second were applied between one end of the nerve and the membrane of the central segment. The membrane potential was recorded between the central sea water and the other depolarized end. The recorded potentials are developed only across the membrane impedance. Threshold current values ranged from 3.2 microa at 267deg;C to 1 microa at 7.5 degrees C. Threshold potential values ranged from 50 mv at 26 degrees C to 6 mv at 7.5 degrees C. The mean Q(10) of threshold current was 2.3 (SD = 0.2), while the Q(10) for threshold potentials was 2.0 (SD = 0.1).

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PubMed1960

Effect of kinetin on Paramecium caudatum under varying culture conditions.

When kinetin (1 mg/liter) is added to hay infusion medium, the generation time of Paramecium caudatum is shortened immediately upon transfer of the protozoa from stock to isolation culture. Kinetin is particularly effective when culture conditions are suboptimal, perhaps because it substitutes for or supplies some factor which becomes limiting after transfer.

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PubMed1958

The effect of ions upon the response of smooth muscle to cooling.

The slow tonic responses of the anterior byssus retractor of Mytilus edulis to rapid cooling were investigated by simultaneously recording tension and resting potential changes after soaking the muscle in banthine, a powerful neuromuscular blocking agent. The quantitative relations between the amount of cooling and the amount of associated depolarization necessary for contraction at various concentrations of potentiating potassium can be expressed in a family of curves. The plateaus of the curves for sea water and for potassium-free sea water were beneath the depolarization value necessary for contraction, so that it is clear that no amount of cooling with sea water alone or with potassium-free sea water would ever be effective. When the muscle is treated with subthreshold amounts of potassium and rapidly cooled in various concentrations of sodium ion and calcium ion, respectively, the sodium and calcium do not affect the amount of depolarization. Acetylcholine, in subthreshold amounts, has a potentiating effect, but, unlike potassium and cooling, acts through the nervous apparatus. Mytilus muscle will respond to cooling with tonic contraction whenever a critical threshold amount of depolarization is achieved. Cooling alone cannot trigger the contraction since it cannot bring about sufficient depolarization. Cooling can result in contraction, however, if used in conjunction with some other subthreshold depolarizing agent. Cooling affects the contractile mechanism by first causing membrane breakdown and depolarization.

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