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The effect of temperature on the excitability of turtle muscle

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The effect of cooling and heating of tonic and tetanic muscles of the turtleEmys orbicularis on the excitability caused by stimulation of various durations has been studied.

Cooling of muscles enhanced the excitability caused by prolonged stimulation and shortened that caused by brief stimulation. Heating caused a reverse effect. As a result, strength-duration curves cross at the area corresponding approximately to the duration of physiologic stimulus. In the zone where the curves cross the excitability is not altered by thermal changes, demonstrating an effective cellular adaptation, protecting muscular excitability from the effect of sharp thermal changes.

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  1. Laboratory of Histophysiology Physiological Institute, Leningrad State University, Leningrad, USSR

    I. P. Suzdaiskaya & M. B. Kiro

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Suzdaiskaya, I.P., Kiro, M.B. The effect of temperature on the excitability of turtle muscle. Bull Exp Biol Med 43, 546–549 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00785735

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