Publication Date:
1986-11-07
Description:
Intracellular electrical recordings in an in vitro slice preparation of the brainstem medial pontine reticular formation, a region thought to be important in mediation of desynchronized sleep phenomena, demonstrate a population of neurons that have a calcium-dependent, low threshold spike. This low threshold spike was inactivated at relatively depolarized membrane potential levels and, when this spike was deinactivated, it induced a burst of action potentials. The membrane potential dependence of the spike may underlie changes in action potential firing patterns associated with behavioral state change because the baseline membrane potential in neurons of the medial pontine reticular population depolarizes during passage from waking and slow wave sleep to desynchronized sleep, which is characterized by the absence of burst firing.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Greene, R W -- Haas, H L -- McCarley, R W -- MH 39,683/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1986 Nov 7;234(4777):738-40.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3775364" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Action Potentials
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Animals
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Calcium/physiology
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Electric Stimulation
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In Vitro Techniques
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Membrane Potentials
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Pons/cytology/*physiology
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Rats
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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