ADAPTATION OF CUTANEOUS TACTILE RECEPTORS
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- 20 July 1936
- journal article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of general physiology
- Vol. 19 (6) , 939-942
- https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.19.6.939
Abstract
Potassium is released from the epithelial cells of frog's skin on stimulation by an interrupted air jet. This evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that potassium is involved in the adaptation of the tactile nerve endings in frog's skin.Keywords
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- Slow impulses from the cutaneous nerves of the frogThe Journal of Physiology, 1935