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AN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF HOW NONIMPULSIVE EFFECTS SPREAD ALONG NEUROMUSCULAR STRUCTURES FROM X-IRRADIATED AREAS

Journal Article · · Biophysics (U.S.S.R.) (English Translation)
OSTI ID:4203619
X rays caused a rise in excitability that lasted for not less than 4 to 5 hr in distal areas of the nerve when they were allowed to act on 8 to 9 mm lengths of frog sciatic nerve. The action potential spikes from the nerve were heightened, whether the stimuli to the distal areas were threshold, medium, or strong. This rise in excitability in distal areas went with two phases of change in the action potentials of grnstrocnemius muscle, if the muscle potentials were recorded when the nerve was stimulated in distal areas. The muscle potentials at first rose and then fell. The contractile responses also showed two phases that ran parallel; some effect spread from the irradiated area to the muscle itself. (auth)
Research Organization:
Lomonosov State Univ., Moscow
NSA Number:
NSA-14-007229
OSTI ID:
4203619
Journal Information:
Biophysics (U.S.S.R.) (English Translation), Journal Name: Biophysics (U.S.S.R.) (English Translation) Vol. Vol: 3
Country of Publication:
Country unknown/Code not available
Language:
English

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