SUBJECT INDEX 



Absorption bands of pigments and vital 



dyes, 196, 200 

 Accommodation, 69, 318, 321, 323 

 Acetate, 80 



Acetyl-}'-aminobutyrobetaine, 388 

 Active excitatory processes, 1 1 

 Active inhibitory processes, 1 1 

 Adaptation, J 52, 156, 167, 177, 318, 319, 



322, 323 

 Adrenaline, 19, 336, 357 



inhibitory action of, 19 

 Acetylcholine, 4, 11, 114, 115, 117, 118, 119, 



120, 121, 124, 133, 136, 137, 138, 319, 321, 



335, 346, 347, 357, 360, 363, 365, 378, 



382, 383 



actions compared with those of Factor I, 

 363 



actions on moUuscan hearts, 136fT. 



action on vertebrate hearts, 114ff., 133 



desensitization to, 4 



effects on current spread, 133 



not inhibitory transmitter, 138 



to increase K+-permeability, 134 

 Afternegativity, 295, 309 

 Afterpositivity, 297, 309 

 Agmatine (}'-guanidino butylamine), 362 

 /3-Alanine, 344, 356, 362 

 /^-Alanyl-1-histidine (see Camosine) 

 Alleviatin (diphenol hydantoin), 390 

 w-Amino acids, 102, 103, 432, 433, 436 

 y-Amino butyric acid (GABA), 93, 101, 102, 



105, 107, 109, 112, 173, 186, 222, 315, 322, 



344, 355, 361, 362, 365, 369, 370, 372, 37.\ 



374, 380, 386, 388, 433, 435, 436, 443 

 y-Aminobutyric acid, action compared with 



that of Factor I, 356fT. 



not inhibitory transmitter, 362 



effect on presynaptic terminals, 96 

 }'-Aminobutyrobetaine, 388 

 }'-Amino-/?-hydroxy butyric acid, 356, 369, 



370, 372, 373, 380, 382, 389, 391, 394 

 }'-Amino-/?-hydroxybutyrobetaine (see Car- 

 nitine) 

 7-Aminobutyrocholine, 388 

 f-Aminocaproic acid, 433, 437, 438, 439, 



441,443 

 co-Aminocaprylic acid, 436, 437, 438, 441, 



443 

 6-Aininovaleric acid, 336, 362 



Anatomically addressed systems, 396ff. 

 Anatomy of Aplysia visceral ganglion, 1 80, 



233ff. 



of crustacean heart ganglion, 144ff. 



of crustacean stretch receptor organs, 

 285ff. 

 Anelectrotonus, 15, 16 

 Annulospiral affercnts, 33 

 Anodonta, 2 



Anoxic depolarization. 181ff., 183 

 Anterior cerebellum, 67 

 Anterior commissure, 33 

 Anterior midbrain central grey matter, 38 

 Antidromic inhibition, 61 



stimulation, 26 



of ventral roots, 51 

 Antidromically evoked potentials (stretch 



receptors), 295 

 Aplysia Californica, 234, 238 

 Aplysia varica, 234 

 Aplysia fasciara, 179, 180, 218 



anatomy of visceral ganglion, ISOff. 

 Aplvsia, ganglion cells, 83, 179ff., 194ff., 



233ff. 

 Apparent suppression of rebound, 168 

 Artificial endolymph currents, 38 

 Aspartic acid, 378, 379 

 Astacus fliiviatilis, 87 

 Astroscopiis, 9, 1 1 



Asymmetrical reciprocal innervation, 69 

 Atrial trabeculae, structure of, 129 

 Atropine, 345, 360 

 Auditory receptors, 336 

 Autoactivity {see Spontaneous activity) 

 Axodendritic postsynaptic potentials, 424 



Ba+, 101 



Bicarbonate. 80 



Biceps-semitendinosus motor neurons, 351, 



352 

 Biphasic i.p.s.p., 162 

 Bisynaptic {see Disynaptic) 

 Bisynaptic excitatory responses, 38 

 Blatella gennanica, 45 1 

 Boloceroides. 399 

 Bombyx mori, 455 

 Bordercontrast, 273, 275 

 Brain transplantation, 449 

 82 Br, 112 



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