The Journal of General Physiology, Vol 38, 17-29,
Copyright © 1954 by The Rockefeller University Press
THE MERCURY-HYDROGEN PEROXIDE SYSTEM AS AN ANALOGUE OF NERVOUS TRANSMISSION
V. A. Vis 1
1 From the Departments of Physiology and Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
The construction and behavior of a system exhibiting all-or-nothing propagation of an electrochemical disturbance are described. Detailed measurements of the distribution of electric current and potential are given and the device is compared with nerve and with the Lillie model in respect to structure, electrical and chemical activity, and energy relationships.
Submitted on March 8, 1954