Abstract
USING double-barrelled micro-electrodes, one barrel for recording the other for passing current, it has been found possible to observe the effects of hyper -and de-polarizing currents on the membrane behaviour of actively beating heart muscle.
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JOHNSON, E., ROBERTSON, P. & TILLE, J. Purkinje and Ventricular Membrane Resistances during the Rising Phase of the Action Potential. Nature 182, 1161–1162 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1821161a0
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