Correlation of electrical and mechanical responses in nervous control of cilia

ABSTRACT ALTHOUGH cilia have many important functions in the majority of animal phyla, our knowledge about the mechanism by which their activity is controlled has been fragmentary1.

Extensive electrophysiological studies of the ciliated cell, with intracellular microelectrodes, have been made only with the relatively large protozoans, principally _Paramecium_, where the

ciliary activity has been shown to be closely associated with the electrical properties of the cell membrane2,3. Among the metazoans, some examples of nervous control of ciliary activity

have been reported4, but, mainly because of technical difficulties, intracellular recording of the membrane potential from the ciliated cells has been made in only a few cases5,6; in no case

has nervous control of cilia been studied by recording simultaneously the electrical and the mechanical events. Such recording is essential to understanding the mechanism of nervous control

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