SUBJECT INDEX 



475 



Structure activity relationship, 137 

 Strychnine, 11, 42, 103, 347, 348, 354, 358, 



359, 361, 371, 373, 433, 440, 443 

 Substance I, 4, 320, 363, 364, 365 

 Submicroscopic synapses, 38 

 Substance P, 358 

 Subnormal period, 14, 19 



process, 19 

 Subsynaptic membrane, 9, 71, 84, 89, 90, 92, 



122, 328, 330 

 Sulphate, 71, 80 



Superficial cortical responses (S.C.R.) onto- 

 genetic changes of, 428ff. 

 Supplemented inhibition, 105, 362 

 Superior obliquus, 39 

 Suprasylvian gyrus, 425, 430, 438 

 Surplus excitation (excitatory drive), 62, 



64, 65, 66 



concepts of 64 

 Sympathetic ganglia, 19, 363 

 Sympathin {see Adrenaline, Nor-adrenaline) 

 Synpatic knobs, 22 (see also Terminal knobs) 

 Synaptic potentials {see E.p.s.p. ; Generator 



potential; I.p.s.p. ; Junctional potential) 

 Synaptic vesicles, 191, 338, 345 



Time course of inhibitory current, 72 



Tonic reflex, 65 



Tonic stretch reflex, 62 



Tortoise auricle, 16 

 sinus venosus, 115 



Transmission of information, 322, 334, 336, 

 395ff., 401, 406ff. 



Transmissional components at synapse, 99 



Transmissional membranes of terminals, 97 



Transmitter agents {see Transmitter sub- 

 stances) 



Transmitter, bound form, 345 



Transmitter-Receptor interaction, 343, 346 



Transmitter substances, 12, 58, 71, 105, 401 

 {see also Excitatory transmitter substance 

 Inhibitory transmitter substance) 



Transmitter, enzymatic inactivation, 346 

 free form, 345 



Trigeminal system, 33 



Triturus cristatus, 42 



Trophospongium, 234 



d-Tubocurarin, 93, 383, 385 



Unit excitatory receptive field, 410, 41 1, 414, 

 416,417,418 



Tastebuds, 331, 332, 334 



Taurine, 378, 379, 382 



Temperature sensitivity of nerve cells and 



synapses, 217 

 Tendon organ, 27 

 Terminal degeneration, 22 

 Terminal knobs, 17, 33, 37, 38, 40, 41, 42 



generally excitatory, 35 



of motoneurons, 35 

 Testing stimulus, 414, 415, 416, 420 

 Tetrapyrrolic pigments, Aplysia nerve cells, 



196 

 Theory of decremental conduction, 14 

 Thiocyanate, 80 

 Tibialis anterior, 65 



Vagal inhibition, 13, 15, 16, 114ff". 

 Vagus action, 114ff'. 



nerve, 114 

 Venus, 138 



Venus mercenaria, 137 

 Vertebrate heart muscle, 84 

 Vestibular nucleus, 38 

 Visceral ganglion, mollusca, 138, 179ff"., 



194fi'., 233flF. 

 Vision, 5, 2410". 

 Visual pigment of Limulus, lAl 



{see also Rhodopsin) 

 Vitamin Bi, 380, 385 

 Vitamin Be, 380 

 Vitamin Bia, 380, 386 



