This PRO lesson illustrates action potentials as they function through the conduction of cockroach ventral nerve cords.
By administering soft puffs of air to the “anal cerci” one can provoke and view action potentials as they travel in axons through the ventral nerve cord. The cerci have hundred of tiny hairs connected to individual mechanoreceptors. The small hairs respond to touch and small changes in air currents. The cockroach uses this information to evade predators.
In this lesson, stainless steel needle electrodes are placed under the cockroach ventral nerve cord to record the nerve response to stimulation. A puff of air is presented to the cerci and the response is recorded. This particular lesson shows the information being passed along the ventral nerve cord. The axons traveling through the nerve result in amplitude data spikes during recording, allowing one to study this phenomenon up close.
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