Membrane Potential Responses of Paramecium caudatum to External Na^+(Physiology)

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Tne membrane potential responsed of Paramecium caudatum to Na^+ ions were examined to understand the mechanism underlying the sensation of external inorganic ions in the ciliate by comparing the responses of the wild type and the behavioral mutant. Wild-type cells exhibited initial continuous backward swimming followed by repeated transient backward swimming in the Na^+-containing test solution. A wild-type cell impaled by a microelectrode produced initial action potentials and a sustained depolarization to an application of the test solution. The prolonged depolatization, the depolarizing afterpotential, took place subsequently after stimulation. The ciliary reversal of the cell was closely associated with the depolarizing responses. When the application of the test solution was prolonged, the wild-type cell produced sustained depolarization overlapped by repeated transient depolarization. A behavioral mutant defective in the Ca^<2+> channel, CNR (caudatum non reversal), produced a sustained depolarization but no action potential or depolarizing afterpotential. The mutant cell responded to prolonged stimulation with sustained depolarization overlapped by transient depolarization, although it did not show backward swimming. The results suggest that Paramecium shows at least two kinds of membrane potential responses to Na^+ ions: a depolarizing afterpotential mediating initial backward swimming are repeated transient depolarization responsible for the repeated transient backward swimming.
社団法人日本動物学会の論文
2004-11-25

Membrane Potential Responses of Paramecium caudatum to External Na^+(Physiology)

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