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The electrical properties of crustacean muscle fibres

The electrical properties of crustacean muscle fibres J. Physiol. (I953) I20, I7I-204 THE ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF CRUSTACEAN FIBRES MUSCLE BY P. FATT AND B. KATZ From the Department of Biophysics, University London College, 21 October 1952) (Received been of special interest to physiologists because its Crustacean muscle has junctions show the properties of central nervous synapses. The myoneural and inhibitory nerve fibres which can be muscles are supplied by excitatory stimulated separately, and whose interaction can be studied at the level of As was pointed out in recent reviews (Wiersma, the nerve-muscle junction. information has been obtained about the 1941; Katz, 1949), much valuable the crustacean nerve-muscle system, but little progress has organization of by which antagonistic nerve impulses been made in elucidating the mechanisms on the muscle fibres. exert their effects As a first step, it seemed necessary to study the properties of crustacean from their nerve junctions. Hitherto, most of the muscle fibres, quite apart of the crustacean muscle membrane have remained elementary properties of difficulties in obtaining suitable fibre unexplored, largely because technical preparations. With the help of intracellular electrodes, this difficulty can be and in the present work extensive use has been made of this overcome, across the surface membrane of method, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of Physiology Wiley

The electrical properties of crustacean muscle fibres

Fatt, P.; Katz, B.
The Journal of Physiology , Volume 120 (1-2) – Jan 28, 1953
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J. Physiol. (I953) I20, I7I-204 THE ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF CRUSTACEAN FIBRES MUSCLE BY P. FATT AND B. KATZ From the Department of Biophysics, University London College, 21 October 1952) (Received been of special interest to physiologists because its Crustacean muscle has junctions show the properties of central nervous synapses. The myoneural and inhibitory nerve fibres which can be muscles are supplied by excitatory stimulated separately, and whose interaction can be studied at the level of As was pointed out in recent reviews (Wiersma, the nerve-muscle junction. information has been obtained about the 1941; Katz, 1949), much valuable the crustacean nerve-muscle system, but little progress has organization of by which antagonistic nerve impulses been made in elucidating the mechanisms on the muscle fibres. exert their effects As a first step, it seemed necessary to study the properties of crustacean from their nerve junctions. Hitherto, most of the muscle fibres, quite apart of the crustacean muscle membrane have remained elementary properties of difficulties in obtaining suitable fibre unexplored, largely because technical preparations. With the help of intracellular electrodes, this difficulty can be and in the present work extensive use has been made of this overcome, across the surface membrane of method,

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