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An extracellular electrical current creates on the cell membrane an induced potential, the magnitude of which increases with increasing length of the cell in the field.
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The effective length of the cell in the direction of the field is determined by the ratio of the resistances of the soma and of the processes directed along the field.
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The cell process contributes toward creating considerable shifts of the membrane potential on the cell soma for a current density of 0.06–1.1 mA/cm2.
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Translated from Zhurnal Vysshei Nervnoi Deyatel'nosti imeni I. P. Pavlova, Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 163–169, January–February, 1986.
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Ierusalimskii, V.N., Balaban, P.M. Magnitude of potential induced in a mollusk nerve cell in a low-frequency electric field. Neurosci Behav Physiol 17, 125–130 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01184902
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