The breakdown of accommodation - Nerve as model sense-organ
The breakdown of accommodation - Nerve as model sense-organ
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DOI:
10.1152/jn.1942.5.1.55
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发表时间:
1942-01-01
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
Skoglund, CR
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作者:
Bernhard, CG;Granit, R;Skoglund, CR
METHODFor slowly rising currents of different time constants an apparatus built by our physicist, Mr. T. Helme, was available. The principle of this instrument is a release of an initially blocked anode current by charging the grid over condensers. Kahlson and v. Werz (1936) among others have utilized this principle before. An improvement in our apparatus consists in the use of a suitable resistance connected to the cathode-side of the HT circuit in order to eliminate deformation of the HT current rise owing to the characteristic of the valve. The form of the rise of the current in the stimulating anode circuit was determined oscillographically. In the diagrams plotted below, however, the actual rising times have not been used but a factor proportional to the C XR products of the condensers charging the grid. The reason for this was our original intention to calculate Hill’s constant x (Hill, 1936, and below). The stimulating currents remain at the level to which they have risen until broken off manually. A description of the technique together with observations on the breakdown of accommodation has been given in Swedish by Granit and Skoglund(1941).Silver-silver chloride electrodes placed in the anode circuit were held to be satisfa&ory on account of the high internal resistance of the HT circuit relative to that of the tissue. The nerves were stimulated monopolarly through these electrodes. A Lapicque-circuit similar to the one used by Solandt(1935-36) for slowly rising stimuli was also available. Decerebrate cats, sometimes frogs, were used for work on peripheral nerve. In the former case the animals were kept in a heated and shielded box with a cistern of boiling water supplying the moist atmosphere needed. A number of experiments were also carried out with the retina and optic ganglion of Dytiscus. Cathode ray oscillograph and condenser coupled amplifier were used for recording from nerve or muscle.