Epithelial action potentials in embryos of the Australian lungfish
- 22 June 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by The Royal Society in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. B. Biological Sciences
- Vol. 237 (1286) , 127-131
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1989.0041
Abstract
The epithelial cells of the skin of embryonic Australian lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri) between stages 30 and 39, are mechanosensitive and excitable, showing overshooting action potentials 400-800 ms long with a rapid rise followed by a slower repolarization (usually with a shoulder on the repolarizing phase), which progagate at around 10 mm s-1. This skin impulse system is very similar to that found in embryonic and larval Amphibia; the significance of this similarity is discussed.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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