Electrical Conduction through Nerve and DNA

H. Abdelmelek；A. El-May Ben Hamouda；M. Ben Salem；JM. Pequignot；M. Sakly

electric conductivity ； sciatic nerve ； DNA ； cold ； superconductor

The Chinese Journal of Physiology

46卷3期（2003 / 09 / 01）

137 - 141

英文

The aim of the present study was to analyse electric resistivity at different ambient temperatures between 300 to 20K in the frog sciatic nerve and salmon sperm DNA. When the electrical contacts were leaned just into the sciatic nerve, an increase of the sciatic nerve resistivity was observed for 240 K ＜ T ＜ 300 K and a rise of electrical conductivity was apparent below 240 K. This dependence is generally associated with a semiconductor behaviour. Once the sciatic nerve temperature was driven below 250K, the resistivity abruptly decreased and then at temperatures lower than 234 K, it remained constant and close to one tenth of its ambient temperature value. By contrast, when the electrical contacts were leaned into Salmon sperm DNA, the resistivity remained constant between 300K to 20K, showing a high electrical stability at low temperature. Thus, we report the existence of a new form of electric conductivity in the sciatic nerve at low ambient temperature, which in turn has many electric similarities with inorganic or organic superconductors, whereas temperature failed to alter DNA electrical properties until 20K.

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