INHIBITORY INTERACTION OF RECEPTOR UNITS IN THE EYE OF LIMULUS
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- 20 January 1957
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of general physiology
- Vol. 40 (3) , 357-376
- https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.40.3.357
Abstract
The inhibition that is exerted mutually among the receptor units (ommatidia) in the lateral eye of Limulus has been analyzed by recording oscillographically the discharge of nerve impulses in single optic nerve fibers. The discharges from two ommatidia were recorded simultaneously by connecting the bundles containing their optic nerve fibers to separate amplifiers and recording systems. Ommatidia were chosen that were separated by no more than a few millimeters in the eye; they were illuminated independently by separate optical systems.Keywords
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- INHIBITION IN THE EYE OF LIMULUSThe Journal of general physiology, 1956