Ichiji Tasaki, M.D. Bibliography

October 10, 1910 – January 4, 2009

Highlights of Ichiji Tasaki's Work

  • Development of a method of isolating single vertebrate nerve fibers and of measuring electrical properties of the myelin sheath and node of Ranvier (demonstration of saltatory conduction in the myelinated nerve fiber) Am. J. Physiol., 125, 380 (1939); 127, 211, (1939); Pflueger's Arch. f. d. ges. Physiol. 244, 696 (1941), 245, 764 (1942).
  • Demonstration of traveling waves in the guinea pig cochlea by recording cochlear microphonics. J. Acous. Soc. Am. 24, 502 (1952).
  • Recording of afferent impulses from individual primary auditory nerve fibers. J. Neurophysiol. 17, 97 (1954).
  • Invention of the double-cannulation method of internal perfusion of the squid giant axon and analyses of the bi-ionic action potential. Acta Physiol. Scand. 52, 195 (1961); Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 58, 2246 (1967). Physiology and Electrochemistry of Nerve Fibers. Academic Press, New York (1982).
  • Demonstration and analyses of extrinsic fluorescence signals associated with nerve excitation and conduction. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 61, 883 (1968); Photochem. Photobiol. 24, 191 (1976).
  • Development of the polyvinylidine fluoride (PVDF) method of detecting rapid heat production in nervous tissues. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 101, 172, (1981); Biophys. J. 55, 1033 (1989).
  • Demonstration of physical-chemical changes and analyses of rapid swelling in nerve fibers, cells and synapses associated with excitation processes. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 95, 1328 (1980); Ferroelectrics 220, 309 (1999).
  • Demonstration and analyses of macromolecular phase-transitions associated with Ca2+-Na+ exchange in biopolymers and nervous tissues. Biopolymers 32, 1019 (1992); Jpn. J. Physiol. 49, 297 (1999); J. Theor. Biol (2002).

Bibliography of Ichiji Tasaki

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