Impaled Valonia ventricosa
Impaled Valonia ventricosa
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DOI:
10.1085/jgp.14.1.139
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发表时间:
1930-09-01
影响因子:
3.8
通讯作者:
Blinks, LR
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作者:
Blinks, LR
In many freshly gathered ceils of Valonia ventricosa the apparent resistance of the protoplasm to direct current varies with the value of the potential applied to measure it. 1 It was further shown 1 that the apparent resistance of a single layer of protoplasm in such cells depends also upon the direction of the current, falling somewhat when the applied potential is increased to carry the positive current outward across it, but rising greatly during the first increase of 100 Inv. in the opposite (inward) sense.These directional effects were studied in cells in which the contactregion at one end had been killed with chloroform. They were therefore limited to the time during which the intact end remained uninfluenced by the diffu. sion of chloroform, or by the death of the other end. This was at most 15 minutes to half an hour. In order to extend greatly the time of these measurements across a single layer of protoplasm, and to avoid the influence of toxic agents, a series of resistance measurements was made with V. ventricosa cells impaled upon fine glass capillaries. Through these the current was led into (or out of) the vacuole, and passed but once across the protoplasm to (or from) the surrounding sea water. It is recognized that the advantages of this method are balanced by the possible injury inflicted by the insertion of a capillary into the cell. It has already been noted* that cells which have reached the