著者

Ichiji TASAKI Kunihiko IWASA Robert C. GIBBONS

出版者

THE PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN

雑誌

The Japanese Journal of Physiology (ISSN:0021521X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.30, no.6, pp.897-905, 1980 (Released:2011-06-07)

参考文献数

13

被引用文献数

25 39

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A nerve impulse travelling along a crustacean nerve was found to be accompanied by a small, rapid movement of the nerve surface.The movement was 10-20nm in amplitude and was concurrent with a rise in the “swelling pressure” of the order of 5mg/cm2 for a nerve bundle.Initiation of an action potential at the site of cathodal polarization was preceded by a small, slow mechanical change in the nerve fiber.Anodal polarization produced a large mechanical change of the opposite sign.Tetrodotoxin and procaine suppressed rapid mechanical changes.