EmbryologiaVolume 4, Issue 3 p. 219-235 Free Access ELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF ECHINODERM EGGS YUKIO HIRAMOTO, YUKIO HIRAMOTO Misaki Marine Biological Station, Miura-shi, Kanagawa-kenSearch for more papers by this author YUKIO HIRAMOTO, YUKIO HIRAMOTO Misaki Marine Biological Station, Miura-shi, Kanagawa-kenSearch for more papers by this author First published: March 1959 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-169X.1959.tb00252.xCitations: 25AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Literature Adrian, R. H., 1956. The effect of internal and external potassium concentration on the membrane potential of frog muscle. J. Physiol., 133, 631– 658. Cole, K. S., 1928. Electric impedance of suspensions of Arbacia eggs. J. Gen. Physiol., 12, 37– 54. Cole, K. S., 1935. Electric impedance of Hipponoë eggs, ibid., 18, 877– 887. Cole, K. S. and R. H. Cole, 1936a. Electric impedance of Asterias eggs, ibid., 19, 609– 623. Cole, K. S. and R. H. Cole 1936b. Electric impedance of Arbacia eggs, ibid, 19, 625– 632. Cole, K. S. and H. J. Curtis, 1938. Electric impedance of single marine eggs, ibid., 21, 591– 599. Cole, K. S. and H. J. Curtis, 1950. Bioelectricity: Electric physiology. O. Glasser (ed.) Medical Physics, New York , Vol. 2, pp. 82– 90. Cole, K. S. and A. L. Hodgkin, 1939. Membrane and protoplasm resistance in the squid giant axon. J. Gen. Physiol., 22, 671– 687. Cole, K. S. and J. M. Spencer, 1938. Electric impedance of fertilized Arbacia egg suspensions, ibid., 21, 583– 590. Gelfan, S., 1931. Electrical potential difference across the nuclear membrane of the starfish egg. Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. Med., 29, 58– 59. Hiramoto, Y., 1956. Cell division without mitotic apparatus in sea urchin eggs. Exp. Cell Res., 11, 630– 636. Hiramoto, Y., 1958. Preliminary report on the electric properties of echinoderm eggs. Bull. Mar. Biol. Stat. Asamushi, 9, 69– 70. Hiramoto, Y., 1959. Changes in electric properties upon fertilization in the sea-urchin egg. Exp. Cell Res., 16, in press. Hobson, A. D., 1932. The effect of fertilization on the permeability to water and on certain other properties of the surface of the egg of Psammechinus miliaris. J. Exp. Biol., 9, 69– 92. Hodgkin, A. L. and W. A. H. Rushton, 1946. The electrical constants of a crustacean nerve fibre. Proc. Roy. Soc. London, B, 133, 444– 479. Hori, R., 1958. Membrane potential of the sea urchin egg and its change upon fertilization. Zool. Mag. Tokyo, 67, 31 (Proceedings of the 28th anual meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan). Iida, T. T., 1943. Changes of electric capacitance following fertilization in sea urchin eggs. J. Fac. Sci. Tokyo Imp. Uiv., IV, 6, 141– 151. Iida, T. T., 1949. Changes of electric capacitance following fertilization in sea urchin eggs. Measurements over an extended frequency range. Zool. Mag. Tokyo, 58, 167– 170. Ishikawa, M., 1954. Relation between the breakdown of the cortical granules and permeability to water in the sea urchin egg. Embryologia, 2, 57– 62. Kamada, T. and H. Kinosita, 1940. Membrane potential of seaurchin eggs. Proc. Imp. Acad. Tokyo, 16, 149– 152. Lundberg, A., 1955. Microelectrode experiments on unfertilized sea urchin eggs. Exp. Cell Res., 9, 393– 398. Rothschild, Lord, 1938. The biophysics of the egg surface of Echinus esculentus during fertilization and cytolysis. J. Exp. Biol., 15, 209– 216. Rothschild, Lord and H. Barnes, 1953. The inorganic constituents of the sea-urchin egg. ibid., 30, 534– 544. Rushton, W. A. H., 1934. A physical analysis of the relation between threshold and interpolar length in the electric excitation of medullated nerve. J. Physiol., 82, 332– 352. Scheer, B. T., A. Monroy, M. Santangelo and G. Riccobono, 1954. Action potentials in seaurchin eggs at fertilization. Exp. Cell. Res., 7, 284– 287. Taylor, C. V. and D. M. Whitaker, 1926. A measurable potential difference between the cell interior and outside medium. Carnegie Inst. Year Book, No. 25, pp. 248– 249. Tyler, A., A. Monroy, C. Y. Kao and H. Grundfest, 1956. Membrane potential and resistance of the starfish egg before and after fertilization. Biol. Bull, 111, 153– 177. Citing Literature Volume4, Issue3March 1959Pages 219-235 ReferencesRelatedInformation