THE FUNCTION OF THE PROXIMAL SYNAPSES OF THE SQUID STELLATE GANGLION
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- 20 January 1959
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of general physiology
- Vol. 42 (3) , 609-616
- https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.42.3.609
Abstract
In the oxygenated excised squid (Loligo pealii) stellate ganglion preparation one can produce excitation of the stellar giant axons by stimulating the second largest (accessory fiber, Young, 1939) or other smaller preganglionic giant axons. Impulse transmission is believed to occur at the proximal synapses of the stellar giant axons rather than the distal (giant) synapses which are excited by the largest giant preaxon.Keywords
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