Publication Date:
1983-09-09
Description:
Intracellular recordings from mammalian neuroendocrine cells showed that steady, injected currents can modify and block periodic spike bursts previously associated with increased neurohormone release. Spike afterpotentials could sum to form plateau potentials, which generated bursts and did not depend on axonal conduction or chemical synapses. Therefore, bursting involves a spike-dependent, positive-feedback mechanism endogenous to single neuroendocrine cells.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Andrew, R D -- Dudek, F E -- NS 16877/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1983 Sep 9;221(4615):1050-2.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6879204" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Action Potentials
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Animals
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*Electrophysiology
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Evoked Potentials
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Feedback
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Hypothalamus/cytology
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In Vitro Techniques
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Membrane Potentials
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Neurosecretory Systems/cytology/*physiology
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Rats
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Tetrodotoxin/pharmacology
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
