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Optical rotation signal of nerve and the Faraday effect
1Department of Cellular Physiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan.
The Japanese Journal of Physiology
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
The polarity of the optical rotation signal, recorded from the lobster nerve, was reversed when the direction of incident light was changed by 180 degrees. This is a property of the Faraday rotation, but the magnetic field by the action current was too small to explain the size of the observed signal.