Magnetic property of the nerve.
An electromagnet of inhomogeneous magneticfield has been used to measure the magnetic susceptibility of the frog's nerve. Specimen of frog sciatic nerve were attached to a thin tungsten wire hanging into the inhomogeneous magnetic field, and from the deviation of this pendulum from the perpendicular position the magnetic susceptibility of the nerve has been determined to be -0.8 . 10(-6) cm3g-1 in a good agreement with the known magnetic property of the constituents of the nerve.
D000818:Animals; D001001:Anura; D004574:Electromagnetic Fields; D010525:Peripheral Nerves