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199319

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1977-12-29
pubmed:abstractText
Glass microelectrode recordings were made from single fibres of the posterior ampullary nerve in the isolated labyrinth of the frog (Rana esculenta). Potentials were recorded both at rest and during rotatory stimulation of the canal. At rest, the tracings revealed an intense background of small, largely summated potentials (0.5-10 mV amplitude, 3-6 msec duration), which underlay the discharge of spikes in all the impaled units. The frequency of the subthreshold events was related to the frequency of the propagated spikes, the latter ranging from 0 to 40/sec. Stimulation modulated the frequency of both spikes and subthreshold potentials, whose summation during excitation led to a positive shift of the fibre membrane potential. The small potentials proved to be dependent on Ca2+ and Mg2+ levels in the bath. Antidromic-stimulation of the posterior ampullary nerve indicated that the observed events do not represent an artifact due to extracellular field interference related to spike activity in the neighbouring fibres. Tetrodotoxin (10(-7)-10(-6) g/ml) applied externally to the preparation or previously perfused through the frog vessels abolishes the propagated spikes but left unaffected the small potentials which, even under drug treatment, were normally modulated by the stimulus. The subthreshold potentials thus appear to be EPSPs generated at the cyto-neural junction between the hair cells and the endings of the ampullary nerve fibres.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0006-8993
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
21
pubmed:volume
135
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
67-75
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1977
pubmed:articleTitle
Post-synaptic potentials recorded from afferent nerve fibres of the posterior semicircular canal in the frog.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article