Association for Biology Laboratory Education

Recording Action Potentials from Earthworm Giant Axons
 

Wayne Silver

Tested Studies in Laboratory Teaching, 1995, Volume 16

Abstract

This abstract describes an exercise in which action potentials are recorded extracellularly from the giant nerve fibers of the earthworm, Lumbricus sp.

Keywords:  earthworm, axon, action potential

Emory University (1994)