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Ion Activity Measurements in Extracellular Spaces, Nerve and Glial Cells in the Central Nervous System of the Leech

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Ion Measurements in Physiology and Medicine

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The central nervous system (CNS) of both vertebrates and invertebrates comprises three compartments: the intracellular media of nerve and of glial cells, and the extracellular space. The composition of each of these three compartments can be quite variable, and may even change within the same system during activity [1,7]. The regulation of ion activities in all three compartments seems to be essential for proper neuronal functioning [2,14]. It follows that a study concerned with ionic homeostasis in the CNS should take into account all three compartments.

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  1. Institut för Physiologie und Kardiologie, Waldstr. 6, D-8520, Erlangen, Germany

    Manfred Kessler , David Keith Harrison  & Jens Höper ,  & 

  2. Dept. of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, USA

    R. P. Buck

  3. Dept. of Physiology, School of Medicine, The Center for Health Science, University of California, Los Angeles, California, 90024, USA

    G. Eisenman

  4. Biosensors Inc., PO Box 640, Chester, New Jersey, 07930, USA

    J. Hill

  5. Faculty of Medicine, American Univ. of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

    R. N. Khuri

  6. Direktor des Max-Planck-Instituts für Systemphysiologie, Rheinlanddamm 201, 4600, Dortmund 1, Germany

    D. W. Lübbers

  7. Medical Center, Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics, New York University, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, USA

    C. Nicholson

  8. Laboratorium für Organische Chemie, Universitätsstr. 16, 6000, Frankfurt M. 70, Germany

    W. Simon

  9. The Middlesex Hospital, Mortimer St., London W N, 8AA, England

    T. Treasure

  10. Institute of Medical Physiology, Dept. A, University of Copenhagen, DK-2200, Copenhagen N, Denmark

    T. Zeuthen

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Schlue, W.R., Wuttke, W., Deitmer, J.W. (1985). Ion Activity Measurements in Extracellular Spaces, Nerve and Glial Cells in the Central Nervous System of the Leech. In: Kessler, M., et al. Ion Measurements in Physiology and Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70518-2_26

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