Effect of relative humidity on the movement of rat vibrissae in a 60-Hz electric field.
The snouts of rats were placed in a 60-Hz electric field at an unperturbed field strength of 50 kV/m. A count of the number of vibrissae that moved in the field was made on a series of rats over a number of days where the laboratory humidity varied from 25% to 48%. The number observed to vibrate fell from nine to zero or one at relative humidities between 25% and 39%, respectively.
D000818:Animals; D004560:Electricity; D006813:Humidity; D009068:Movement; D051381:Rats; D014732:Vibration; D014738:Vibrissae / Q000502:physiology*