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SUBJECT INDEX 



azide, 107 

 cyanide, 107 

 dinitrophenol, 107 

 energy store, 103 

 fluoride, 105 

 fluoroacetate, 107 

 malonate, 107 

 monoiodoacetic acid, 103 

 osmotic pressure, 95 

 oxygen supply, 102 

 pH, 97 

 structure, 40-8, X, XI 

 see also under species 

 Spindle fibres of nucleus, 49, 51 

 Spirostomum, 



activity and pressure, 89 

 eflfects of cuts between cilia, 125 

 kinetodesmata, 64 

 Sponge flagella, 5, 7, 170 



flimmer filaments, 37 

 Stentor, 



ciliary basal body, 

 contents, 26, 60 

 dimensions, 53 

 ciliary tip structure, VII 

 kinetodesmata, 63-4, 198, XIII 

 membranelles, 

 activity and 



adrenaline. 111, 11 5-6 

 aluminium ions, 100 

 digitoxin, 117, 118-9 

 isolation by cuts, 124-5 

 magnesium ions, 99-100 

 pressure, 88-9 

 temperature, 81-3 

 viscosity, 83-6 

 bending couple in contraction, 



147, 165 

 dexioplectic metachronism, 



177-9, 182-90 

 form of beat, 139-41 

 frequency of beat, 160 

 function, optimum size, 171-2 

 inhibition of beating activity, 



121, 195, 197 

 mechanical coordination, 

 187-8 



metachronal waves, 173—4, 

 177-9 

 rate of transmission, 181 

 pacemaker, 186-8 

 propagation of the contraction 



wave (rate), 160 

 reversal of polarity by grafting, 



126 

 reversed swimming, 195 



and inhibition of mem- 

 branelles, 121 

 with cations, 98 

 stepwise conduction, 184-8 

 structure, 



of root fibres, 64-6, 198-9 

 of shaft, 31 

 work done in movement, 165 

 Stepwise conduction theory, 184-8 

 Stereocilia, 74-5 

 Stroboscope, 78-9, 182 

 Strophanthin, 117, 119-20 

 Structure, 

 of cilia, 



arms on peripheral fibrils, 19, 



II, VII, X, XI 

 basal body, 26-7, 52-61, I, II, 



III 

 central fibrils, 13-7, I-III, V, 



VII, X-XII 

 central sheath, 17 

 chemical nature, 28-30 

 compound cilia, 13, 30-2, IV, 



V 

 matrix, 21-2 

 membrane, 13 

 mid-filament, 17, II, V 

 peripheral fibrils, 17-21, 1-VII 



IX-XII 

 radial links, 21, II, X, XI 

 root fibrils, 27-8, 61-73, IV, V, 



XIII, XIV 

 secondary filaments, 21, I 

 sensory cilia, 32-5, VI 

 supporting cilia, 35-6 

 tip of shaft, 22, III 

 transition zone, 22-6, II 

 typical shaft, 13-22 



