Ichiji Tasaki

TL;DR: Isolated retinae of the bullfrog were found to "contract" when excited either by electric stimulation of the optic nerve or by light stimulation ofthe photoreceptors, suggesting involvement of the dendrites of the ganglion and amacrine cells in these contractile responses.

TL;DR: The time course of the heat produced by the toad sartorius muscle in response to nerve stimulation was determined by using a new type of heat-sensor with a high time resolution to show the existence of a brief burst of large heat production prior to the onset of the muscle heat associated with contraction.

TL;DR: This chapter describes the process of nerve excitation from a physicochemical point of view and describes the phenomenon of abrupt depolarization, which illustrates that a continuous change in the univalent divalent cation concentration ratio in the medium produces an abrupt change inThe macromolecular structure of the axon membrane.

TL;DR: In a model of the nerve membrane consisting of a cobalt wire immersed in a solution of HCl and CrO3, ‘abolition of action potentials,’ ‘subthreshold responses’ and the ’impedance loss during activity’ have been demonstrated to support the ‘two-stable state hypothesis’ of nerve excitation.