DEMONSTRATION OF TWO STABLE POTENTIAL STATES IN THE SQUID GIANT AXON UNDER TETRAETHYLAMMONIUM CHLORIDE
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- 20 July 1957
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of general physiology
- Vol. 40 (6) , 859-885
- https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.40.6.859
Abstract
1. Intracellular injection of tetraethylammonium chloride (TEA) into a giant axon of the squid prolongs the duration of the action potential without changing the resting potential (Fig. 3). The prolongation is sometimes 100-fold or more.Keywords
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