Affiliation:
1. From the Departments of Neurology and Physiology, University of Utah College of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112.
Abstract
The planarian ocellar potential (OP), an action potential evoked from the planarian ocellus by a light flash, was recorded with microelectrodes. OP amplitude, latency, and peak delay varied as a function of stimulus intensity and state of adaptation in a manner similar to the responses of other photoreceptors. Changes in the OP that occurred with different directions of incident light are described and attributed to screening effects of the ocellar pigment cells. The temperature coefficient (Q10) of OP latency was 1.5; latency decreased continuously as temperature was increased to destructive levels. The energy of activation of the rate of OP formation was calculated to approximate 10 kcal. These findings suggest dependence of OP latency on ionic diffusion and of OP formation on a biocatalytic process.
Publisher
Rockefeller University Press
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18 articles.
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