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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-9-12
pubmed:abstractText
Regenerative potentials evoked by intracellular current injection in single bundles of circular smooth muscle taken from guinea pig antrum have the characteristics of the secondary regenerative component of the slow wave occurring in the same muscle layer. Such regenerative depolarizations might result from a mechanism that responds to membrane polarization with a delayed increase in the rate of production of unitary potentials detected in this tissue. To test this possibility, a two-stage reaction leading to the formation of an intracellular messenger was proposed. The first forward reaction was voltage-dependent, in the manner described by the Hodgkin-Huxley transient Na conductance formalism, allowing simulation of anode break excitation, stimulus threshold strength-duration characteristics, and refractory behavior. A conventional dose-effect relationship was proposed to describe the dependence of the mean rate of discharge of unitary potentials on messenger concentration. Unitary potentials were modeled as unitary membrane conductance modulations with an empirically derived amplitude distribution and Poisson-distributed intervals. The model reproduces a range of spontaneous and evoked membrane potential changes characteristic of antral circular muscle bundles.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0193-1857
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
285
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
G661-70
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
Mathematical description of regenerative potentials recorded from circular smooth muscle of guinea pig antrum.
pubmed:affiliation
Dept. of Zoology, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia. fre@unimelb.edu.au
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't