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IN the course of investigating the electrical properties of frog skin with short current pulses, it was discovered that this preparation is capable of exhibiting electrical excitability. The present communication is concerned with a description of this phenomenon.
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FINKELSTEIN, A. Electrical Excitability of Isolated Frog Skin. Nature 190, 1119–1120 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/1901119a0
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