...+ suggested that partial inhibition of the short-circuit current by hemolymphal Ba 2+ was due to blockage of one of at least two parallel transbasal entry routes for K + into the intracellular transport pool. The present studies show that the local anesthetic lidocaine, at a concentration of 5 mmol I -1...

...K. Dornfeldt; D. Bilo ABSTRACT Spraying lidocaine (Xylocaine), a local anaesthetic, into the nasal cavity of homing pigeons is a technique widely used to study the role of olfaction in pigeon homing. Studies in the laboratory revealed that Xylocaine suppressed vestibular and optokinetic nystagmus...