Index 



Acoustico-lateralis system, i 



Acoustic organs, of moths, ii 



Action currents, 9 



Action potential, 2, 9 



Active transport, 6 



Adams, 94 



Adaptation, of sensory neurons, 54 



Adrian, 23, 44 



Alkxandrowicz, 29 



Ampullary receptors, of Mormyridae, 



76 

 Anions, organic, 6, 7 

 Arvanitaki, 95 

 Axis cylinder, 2 

 Axon hillock, 81 

 Axoplasm, 2 



Barth, 37 

 Beidler, 89, 90 

 Bennett, 75, 76 

 Bernhard, 23, 35, 38 

 Bip>olar neurons, of crayfish, 81 

 Bivalve molluscs, photosensitive neu- 

 rons in, 34-35 

 Blowfly salt receptor, 14 



Calcium ions, role in receptor poten- 

 tial, 73 



Calma, 73 



Capsule, of Pacinian corpuscle, 56 



Cation, binding by taste receptors, 90 



Central nervous system, stimulus 

 error detection, 5, 10 



Chalazonitis, 95 



Chorda tympanic nerve, 90 



Conductance, of nerve cell mem- 

 brane, 66 



Contact chemoreceptors, 92-93 



Davis, 39 



Dendrites, of sensory neurons, 78-79 

 Dethier, 92 

 Diamond, 74 

 Donnan equilibrium, 6 

 Dynamic component, of receptor 

 potential, 36 



Dytiscus, generator potential in, 38 

 effects of hyperpolarizing currents 

 on, 35-36 



Eccentric cells, of Limulus, 22 



Edwards, 80 



Electric fish, 74 



Electrical inexcitability, of receptor 



membrane, 27 

 Electroretinogram , discovery of, 18 

 Equilibrium potential, of potassium 

 ions, 8 



of receptor potential, 72 



of sodium ions, 8, 73 

 Evans, 16, 91, 92 

 Eyzaguirre, 31, 32, 47 



Florey, 59 



Frog muscle spindle, hyperpolariz- 

 ation in, 36 

 receptor potential magnitude and 



impulse frequency, 41, 52 

 effects of procaine on, 26 

 Fuortes, 43, 47, 49-51, 66, 68 



Generator potential, definition of, 39 

 GiLLARY, 15 



Goldman, 96 

 Graham, 15, 22 

 Granit, 23, 38 

 Gray, 28, 39 

 Gymnotidae, 74 



Hagins, 94 



HaRTLINE, 15, 22, 34 



HODGKIN, 19, 20, 21, 42, 44-46, 48-50 



Holmgren, 18 

 Hooke's Law, 12 

 Huxley, 49 



Hyperpolarizing undershoot, of action 

 potential, 8 

 of receptor potential, 32 



Independence, of receptor sites, 88 

 Injury discharge, of nerve, 22 



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