BIOELECTRICAL POTENTIAL IN HEAVY WATER
- 22 May 1936
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 83 (2160) , 506
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.83.2160.506
Abstract
Belly skin from the frog showed a consistent drop in potential when 96% D2O was substituted for distilled water as a solvent for Ringer''s and a conducting medium. Characteristic falls in peak potential in 4 skins transferred to D2O Ringer''s were 46.6-212 mv; 90.2-34.4 mv; 83.3-25.5 mv; 382-20.8 my. The author concludes that the E.M.F. of the skin is produced by a continuous metabolic process and that many of the physiological effects of D2O may be essentially electrical.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
- Properties of Water of Biological InterestThe Quarterly Review of Biology, 1934
- Studies of the electromotive force in biological systems I. The effect of homologous carbamates on the E.M.F. of frog skinJournal of Cellular and Comparative Physiology, 1933
- Relation between continuous bio‐electric currents and cell respiration. IIJournal of Experimental Zoology, 1928