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- W1462011208 abstract "Publisher Summary This chapter describes the ultrastructural and electrochemical properties of the muscle fibre membrane as a basis for a discussion of the properties and localization of ion barriers. In insect muscles resting membrane potentials, postsynaptic potentials and active membrane responses presumably are determined mainly by ionic currents caused by ionic gradients across the plasma membrane and the relative permeability of the membrane for the various ions. In this respect, insects do not deviate from other animals. The chapter presents arguments indicating that insect muscle fibres create their own external environment, in analogy to what has been demonstrated for the insect nervous system. This protection of excitable tissues in insects enables them to vary the ionic composition of the haemolymph. In phytophagous insects, in particular, the ionic composition of the haemolymph deviates extraordinarily from the conventional “sea-waterlike” ionic environment of the excitable tissues of other animals. Once the possibility had been created of varying the composition of the haemolymph, insects could have started to gradually vary the basis of their bio-electrical properties. They could have, for example, replaced sodium ions by calcium or magnesium ions, and this could be useful, because the food of phytophagous insects normally contains much more magnesium than sodium ions." @default.
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- W1462011208 title "Morphology and Electrochemistry of Insect Muscle Fibre Membrane" @default.
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