Myelinated fibers and saltatory conduction in the shrimp: the fastest impulse conduction in the animal kingdom
Auteur :
Xu, Ke / Terakawa, Susumu
Éditeur :
Springer Verlag, Japan
ISBN :
9784431561071
Date de publication :
23 août 2016
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,5 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Japon
In 1961, neurobiologists found that the conduction velocity of the nerve impulse in the giant nerve fiber of the Penaeus shrimp abdominal nerve cord was over 200 m/s, the highest speed of information transmission ever observed in the animal kingdom.