INDEX 



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Insect, 6, 46-57, 72-7S, 103 -116 



Instability: see Metastal)li' slate 



Insulin, 158, 159 



Intermediary metabolism, 51-56, 155-159 



Inverteljratc (see also Insect), 17-42, 126, 



132, 134, 140, 142 

 In vitro-in vivo relations, 9-15, 80-84, 158- 



160, 162 

 Iodide, 92 

 Ion {see also specific anion or cation), 87. 



90-93, 95-96, 124, 125, 141, 142 

 Ionic current, Sq, 117, 118, 120, 124, 125, 129 



Junction: see End-i)late, Synapse 



Lvactate, 155, 156 



Larva, 46, 48-50 



Latency, 68, 69, 143, 145 



Latency relaxation, 93, 94 



Length-tension relation, 103, 105, 107, io8~ 



114 

 Light emission, 80-84 

 Lipoprotein, 29, 129, 161 

 Luciferase, 80-84 

 Luciferin, 80-84 

 Luminescence, 5, 6, So-84 



JVlagnesium, 81, 82, 95, 96, 138 



Mating reaction, 17-22 



Mechano-receptor (or Transducer), 60, 62, 



71, 121-123, 143 

 Melanoplus dijferentialis, 53 

 Membrane, 5, 6, 31, ^:i, 34, 86-88, 90, 91, 95, 



117-121, 123-126, 128-131, 134, 137- 



145, 158, 159 

 Membrane potential: see Potential 

 Meromyosin, 97 

 Metabolism: see Anaerobiosis, Glycolysis, 



Intermediary metabolism, Respiration 

 Metal-binding: see Chelation 

 Metamorphosis, 5, 7, 8 

 Metastable state, 3, 117, 118 

 Microphone, 62, 68, 70 

 Mitosis, 5, 51 

 Model, 1-5, 8, 14, 70, 71, 105-108, 118, 124- 



126, 128 

 Modulation (see also Valving), 68, 71 

 Molting, 46 



M ormoniella vitripennis, 47 

 Multiplication, 9-16 

 Muscle, 5-7, 10, 72, 85-98, 103-116, 120, 



124, 126, 131-134, 137, 140, 142 

 Myofibril, 7, 94, 95, 103, 104, 108-115 

 Myoneural junction: see End-plate 

 Myosin, 95, 96 



IN ecrosis, 9, lo, 13 



Negative after-potential: see Potential 



Nerve, 5, 6, 46-48, 62, 68, 69, 72, 93, 117, 

 118, 120, 123, 129, 131, 132, 138, 143 



Nerve ending, 85, 121, 123, 126, 135, 143 



Nerve impulse (see also Potential), 5, 6, 60, 

 84, 117, 118, 165, 170, 171 



Nervous s\stem: see Central nervous system, 

 Nerve 



Neuroendocrine linkage, 164-173 



Neurohumor (see also Acetylcholine, Trans- 

 mitter), 49, 51, 131, 136, 137 



Neuron(e), 1 19-146 



Neurosecretion, 46, 47, 168 



Nitrate, 92, 93 



Non-decremental conduction, 121 



Nucleoprotein, 9 



vyrgan of Corti, 62 



Oscillation (see also Cycle, Vibration), 74, 75, 



104, 109 

 Overshoot, 78 



Ovulation, 164, 165, 167, 169 

 Oxygen, 72-77, 80-84 

 Oxygen debt, 55 



Ox\gen lack : see Hypoxia, Anaerobiosis 

 Oxidative metal)olisni: see Respiration 



1 aramecium, 6, 17-21 



Parthenogenesis, 21, 29, S3 



Permeability, 7, 87, 88, 90, 91, 124, 129, 140, 



145; 155, 157, 158 

 Permittivity, 119, 120 

 Phase angle, 1Q7-1 14 

 Phenylthiourea, 53, 54 

 Phosphate (see also ATP), 52, 93, 161 

 Photoperiod, 47, 48 

 Pituitary gland, 6, 164-173 

 Plasmodesmata, 14 

 Platysamia cecropia, 47 

 Poising, 141 

 Polarization {see also De-, Hyper-, etc.), 132, 



138, 141 

 Polyspermy, 6, 30, 38-41 

 Postsynaptic potential: see Potential 

 Potassium, 87-91, 94, 95, 120, 124-126, 138, 



141, 142, 158 

 Potential {see also Cochlear microphonic. 



Nerve impulse) 

 action, 6, 37, 68, 69, 88-91, 93, 94, 96, 103, 



104, 117, 118, 124 

 endolymphatic, 68-71 

 end-plate, 85, 88, 132, 133, 141 

 membrane, 93, 120, 124, 125, 132, 138, 



140, 142 



