Effect of cholinergic agonists on resting membrane potential of earthworm body wall muscle cells.

Carbachol in a concentration of 5x10(-8) mol/liter does not hyperpolarize, and in a concentration of 5x10(-6) mol/liter depolarizes the membrane of somatic muscle cell in earthworm. d-tubocurarine, alpha-bungarotoxin, atropine, and hexamethonium added to the incubation medium did not abolish the carbachol-induced decrease in resting membrane potential. Each of these drugs alone had no effect on resting membrane potential in muscle cells.

[Requirements for operating tables].

Analysis of current medical and engineering requirements for operating tables for adults and children is presented. Special attention is paid to the classification of operating tables, to the requirements for their design, operation, and service. Future trends in development of operating tables are discussed.

[Set of sterilization equipment for large therapeutic institutions].

Some problems concerning the organization of sterilization departments in medical and prophylactic institutions of the Health Ministry of the USSR are discussed. A fundamentally new organizational scheme of work according to the three-zone principle is described. The set of equipment for large sterilization departments is presented.

[Does non-quantum secretion of acetylcholine from motor neuron endings participate in the neurotrophic control of the membrane potential of muscle fibers in the rat?].

The resting membrane potential of synaptic zone of muscle fibres within 2-3 mm (near) and 9-11 mm (far) of the nerve section of the rat diaphragm muscle was measured after 3 hours or on the 5th day after the motor nerve section. The membrane potential of "near" fibres was lower than that of "far" fibres. The presence of carbamylcholine or cGMP in the culture medium maintained the membrane potential of "near" fibres close to that of "far" fibres.

[Non-quantum release of acetylcholine from motor nerve endings and denervation changes in muscle fiber membranes in the rat following blockade of axonal transport].

On the 5th day after blockade of axonal transport with colchicine in rat the resting potential of diaphragm muscle fibre decreased, input resistance increased and the difference between postsynaptic and extrasynaptic membrane in this respect disappeared; extrasynaptic sensitivity to acetylcholine, anode breakdown and tetrodotoxin-resistant action potentials appeared almost in the same form as after nerve section. Application of colchicine to motor nerve, in contrast to nerve section, did not disrupt quantal and non-quantal acetylcholine secretion in motor nerve endings and did not stop muscle contractile activity. The size of non-quantal acetylcholine secretion was estimated by the amplitude of muscle membrane hyperpolarisation in the presence of curare in solution after preliminary acetylcholinesterase inhibition with armin.