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Science 14 November 1958:
Vol. 128. no. 3333, pp. 1209 - 1210
DOI: 10.1126/science.128.3333.1209
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Electric Response of Glia Cells in Cat Brain

I. TASAKI 1 and J. J. CHANG 1

1 Laboratory of Neurophysiology, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, Bethesda, Maryland

An experiment is described suggesting that the glia cells in the mammalian cerebral cortex are capable of developing electric responses to direct stimuli. When hyperfine microelectrodes were pushed into the cortex of a cat, slow, reversible potential variations were recorded which resembled the "electric responses" from the glia cells in tissue culture.


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