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Discrete Potentials in the Dark-adapted Eye of the Crab Limulus

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Two types of discrete depolarizing potentials are recorded intracellularly from thoroughly dark-adapted visual cells of small Limuli stimulated with dim light. The larger type of discrete potential seems Co be associated with the generation of nerve impulses in the eye in these conditions.

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  2. Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts

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DOWLING, J. Discrete Potentials in the Dark-adapted Eye of the Crab Limulus. Nature 217, 28–31 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/217028a0

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