The action of electrical stimulation of one of the pallial nerves on the sensitivity of the bursting RPa1 neuron of Helix pomatia to acetylcholine (ACh) was investigated. The depolarizing effect of ACh was significantly decreased by presynaptic stimulation. Stimulation leads also to an attenuation of the ACh-induced increase in membrane conductivity. The effect of stimulation on the ACh evoked ...

Three ergoline alkaloids producing Claviceps strains easily formed protoplasts when treated with snail digestive extract ex Helix pomatia. Colonies obtained after regeneration of protoplasts were monitored for alkaloid production. Among the regenerated progeny strains could be iso­ lated which differ considerably in the quantity of ergolines and the composition of the alkaloid mixture compared ...

1. The digestive juice of the snail Helix pomatia was used in the study of the degradation of isolated cell-wall preparations from a strain of Saccharomyces carlsbergensis. 2. The crude enzyme system was fractionated by gel filtration and the activities of the more specific fractions thus obtained were examined. 3. Results are discussed with respect to (a) the nature of various factors that are...

In the present work we report a new combination of fractal analysis and some advanced statistical methods and their application for the quantitative detection of the effects of a static magnetic field of 2.7 mT on fractal complexity changes of Br neuron activity in the subesophageal ganglia of the garden snail Helix pomatia. We used factor analysis (FA) in the analysis of the empirical distribu...

The effect of carbon monoxide on the luminescence properties of Helix pomatia alpha-hemocyanin and Panulirus interruptus hemocyanin has been studied. These proteins, when saturated with carbon monoxide, show, besides the intrinsic fluorescence arising from the aromatic amino acid residues, emission in the visible region with a maximum between 540 and 560 nm. Results of carbon monoxide titration...