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Journal of Experimental Biology 41,689-700 (1964)
Published by Company of Biologists 1964

Electrophysiological Investigations of the Heart of Squilla Mantis : I. The Ganglionic Nerve Trunk

HILARY F. BROWN ¹

¹ Stazione Zoologica, Naples, and University Laboratory of Physiology Oxford

1. With an external hook electrode placed upon the ganglionic nerve trunk of the isolated heart of Squilla mantis a burst of a small number (3-12) of nerve impulses was recorded at each heart beat.

2. The number of impulses per burst showed a direct correlation with interval between bursts.

3. The only consistent feature of impulse pattern within the bursts was a lengthening of the intervals between impulses towards the ends of the bursts.

4. Electrodes at two points on the ganglionic nerve trunk each recorded the same number of impulses at a burst. The delay between the two recording points was the same for all impulses, and usually all the impulses were, in a given heart, recorded travelling in the same direction, though this could be either forwards or backwards along the chain.

5. It is suggested that each cell in the chain of 16 fires in succession the same number of times during a burst and that the impulses travel along the same ‘firing channel’ within the ganglionic nerve trunk.

6. Cells near the two ends of the chain showed the greatest spontaneity when isolated by transverse cuts or ligatures. Coupled with the records obtained from two points, this suggests that the bursts are initiated in the front or back regions of the chain, but not invariably by the same one of the 16 cells.

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