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- Title
'On'- and 'Off'- Responses of the Olfactory Epithelium.
- Authors
TAKAGI, S. F.; SHIBUYA, T.
- Abstract
SLOW-action potentials have been found in various sensory receptors in response to adequate stimuli. They were first found in the olfactory epithelium of a dog by Hosoya and Yoshida1. Recently, Ottoson2 studied them extensively in the olfactory epithelium of a frog. He showed that the action potential is of a triangular shape, having a steeply rising limb, a round summit and a gradually falling limb in an exponential curve. When the duration of the olfactory stimulus is long, a plateau appears in the middle of the falling limb and continues as long as the stimulation. It is succeeded by an exponentially falling limb at the cessation of stimulation.
- Publication
Nature, 1959, Vol 184, Issue 4679, p60
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/184060a0