[Afferent impulse of fibers of the vagus nerve of cats using the method of coincidence of outgoing action potentials].
Tonic electrical activity of afferent fibres of intact vagus nerve was studied in cats using the method of coincidence of recorded action potentials. It was found that tonically active afferent fibres of the intact vagus nerve of the cat had conduction velocity 8-65 m/s. Two groups of fibres conducting the most intensive impulsation from the pulmonary stretch receptors were found. At the maximum frequency of the coincident oscillations the average conduction velocities in these two groups was 29.4 plus or minus 1.4 and 41.0 plus or minus 2.5 m/s. The frequency of oscillations was modulated by respiration.
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