THE OLFACTORY STIMULATING EFFECTIVENESS OF HOMOLOGOUS SERIES OF SUBSTANCES STUDIED IN THE FROG
- 1 January 1961
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Physiological Society of Japan in The Japanese Journal of Physiology
- Vol. 11 (5), 530-544
- https://doi.org/10.2170/jjphysiol.11.530
Abstract
The stimulating effectiveness of homologous series of alcohols, acetates and ethers were studied in the olfactory epithelium of the frog by successive and single application methods. The results obtained by both methods were entirely coincident. The stimulating effectiveness of a saturated alcohol vapour incrases following the increase of carbon number, but it decreases beyond C6. The stimulating effectiveness of a saturated acetate vapour has a maximum at C3, and it decreases as the carbon number increases. The stimulating effectiveness of alcohol vapour from the aqueous solution was studied at the concentration of 0.001 [image]. The results were different from those obtained by Ottoson. The stimulating effectiveness was studied in the homologous substances of equal thermodynamic activities. It was found that they are nearly the same when the value of the thermodynamic activity is 0.01, but that they become different when the value exceeds it. It was made clear that Brink-Posternak''s rule (1958) is only applicable in a small range of the values of the thermodynamic activity in the frog. The stimulating effectiveness of alcohols was studied on the equimolecular basis. The results were coincident with the calculated values of the thermodynamic activities of these alcohols except at C7 adn C8.Keywords
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