The Journal of General Physiology, Vol 18, 163-169,
Copyright © 1934 by The Rockefeller University Press
THE EXTINCTION OF REFLEXES IN SPINAL MICE OF DIFFERENT AGES AS AN INDICATOR OF THE DECLINE OF ANAEROBIOSIS
E. V. Enzmann 1 and
G. Pincus 1
1 From the Laboratory of General Physiology, Harvard University, Cambridge
In spinal mice the latent period between decapitation and the disappearance of all spinal reflexes decreases regularly with increasing age (Fig. 1). Available evidence indicates that this latent period may be proportional to the capacity for anaerobic metabolism at various ages.
Accepted on April 25, 1934