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IN ctenophores the tall columnar cells which bear the large cilia are about 100µ × 8–12µ, arranged in groups along the combs1. The large size of the cells makes it possible to record intracellular potentials which occur at each beat of the cilia. Although there is a good deal of previous work on the relations between membrane potential and ciliary activity in Protozoa2, no accounts of intracellular potentials from metazoan ciliated cells have come to hand.
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HORRIDGE, G. Intracellular Action Potentials associated with the Beating of the Cilia in Ctenophore Comb Plate Cells. Nature 205, 602 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/205602a0
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