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THE preparation has been the isolated oxygenated spinal cord of the frog. It is well known1,2 that a dorsal root volley gives rise to a prolonged negative potential which is propagated electrotonically from the spinal cord along that root and also along other dorsal roots both ipselateral and contralateral. In adjacent ipselateral roots this dorsal root potential may be as large (10 mV.) as in the root of entry.
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ECCLES, J. Catelectrotonic Potentials in the Dorsal Roots of the Spinal Cord. Nature 154, 395–396 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154395a0
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