abstract：:1. Isolated, single-neuron extracellular potentials were recorded sequentially in area TE of the inferior temporal cortex (IT) of two macaque monkeys (n = 58 and n = 41 neurons). Data were obtained while the animals were performing a paired-associate task. The task utilized five stimuli and eight stimulus pairings (4 ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Gochin PM,Colombo M,Dorfman GA,Gerstein GL,Gross CG

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The graded, synaptic potentials of first-order visual interneurons (lamina monopolar cells) were examined with intracellular recordings. The spatiotemporal properties were characterized with drifting sine wave gratings and annuli. 2. Annulus-elicited inhibition is maximal for annulus-test pulse intervals of approxi...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Glantz RM,Bartels A

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Less than two segments of the cervical spinal cord of the mudpuppy (Necturus maculatus) is sufficient to generate a locomotor rhythm with application of N-methyl-D-aspartic acid (NMDA). We have recorded intracellularly from rhythmically active interneurons in these segments and classified them according to their ph...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Wheatley M,Jovanović K,Stein RB,Lawson V

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. To test whether the cerebellum is involved in compensating for orbital nonlinearities, we recorded discharges of saccadic burst neurons in the fastigial oculomotor region (FOR) during both centrifugal and centripetal saccades in two trained macaque monkeys. 2. We also investigated the metrics of centrifugal and cen...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Ohtsuka K,Sato H,Noda H

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The antidromic compound action potential (ACAP) of the auditory nerve was evoked by shocks to the auditory nerve root and recorded at the round window of the cochlea in anesthetized guinea pigs. The goal of this study was to determine the characteristics of the ACAP and compare these characteristics with those of t...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Brown MC

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Neurons (n = 142) were recorded with extracellular micropipettes in the parabrachial (PB) area, in the anesthetized rat, some of them being antidromically driven from the centralis nucleus of the amygdala (Ce). The spontaneous activity of these neurons was low, (10th percentile < median frequency < 90th percentile;...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Bernard JF,Huang GF,Besson JM

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The effects of the di- and trivalent trace metal cations, Pb2+, Zn2+, and Al3+, on voltage-activated calcium channel currents recorded from cultured rat dorsal root ganglion neurons were determined. 2. All three cations blocked transient and sustained components of the voltage-gated calcium channel currents elicite...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Büsselberg D,Platt B,Michael D,Carpenter DO,Haas HL

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. We studied the frequency responses of neurons in the nucleus ovoidalis (OV), the principal thalamic auditory relay nucleus of the chicken, in the subthreshold range of membrane potentials. The frequency response is the impedance amplitude profile evident in the voltage response to a broadband stimulus. The stimulus...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Ströhmann B,Schwarz DW,Puil E

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. In the intact pond snail Planorbis corneus, a rapid tilt in any plane evoked a defense reaction consisting of a fast movement of the shell towards the head, shortening of the foot, inhibition of locomotion and of rhythmical feeding movements. This reaction was similar to the first phase of the general defense react...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Arshavsky YI,Deliagina TG,Okshtein IL,Orlovsky GN,Panchin YV,Popova LB

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Large, projection-like neurons from the adult (> 3 wk post-natal) rat globus pallidus (GP) were acutely isolated and subjected to whole-cell voltage-clamp (n = 37). Ca2+ currents were isolated pharmacologically in cells with whole-cell capacitances of 15-34 pF. 2. With 5 mM Ba2+ as a charge carrier, whole-cell curr...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Surmeier DJ,Seno N,Kitai ST

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Dopamine-containing neurons of the rat midbrain were recorded intracellularly in vitro. Anoxia (2-5 min) caused reversible membrane hyperpolarization (4-25 mV), which blocked spontaneous firing of action potentials. Under voltage clamp, anoxia produced an outward current (100-1,000 pA) associated with an increase i...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Mercuri NB,Bonci A,Johnson SW,Stratta F,Calabresi P,Bernardi G

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Discharges of neurons in the peripheral auditory system contain information about the temporal features of acoustic stimuli. Phase-locking of neurons in the anteroventral cochlear nucleus (AVCN) is usually reported to be less robust than in auditory nerve (AN) fibers, which provide their major input. In a companion...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Joris PX,Smith PH,Yin TC

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The role of the structures of the outer ear in producing monaural and binaural spectral cues to sound location was examined acoustically in the ferret. A probe microphone was introduced across the wall of the external auditory canal and its responses to digitally constructed wideband signals were recorded for a lar...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Carlile S,King AJ

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The preceding study described a corrective response in cats when one hind leg steps into a hole. In this investigation we examine the extent to which this behavior is organized at the spinal level by comparing the responses elicited in intact and chronic spinal cats. 2. Adult cats were trained to step bipedally wit...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Hiebert GW,Gorassini MA,Jiang W,Prochazka A,Pearson KG

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The cochlear nucleus of rat brain stem slices was explored with extracellular microelectrodes to determine the distribution and characteristics of spontaneously active neurons. 2. In mapping experiments few spontaneously active neurons were found in anteroventral or posteroventral divisions of the cochlear nucleus....

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Waller HJ,Godfrey DA

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Hair cells in whole-mount in vitro preparations of the utricular macula of the bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) were selected according to their macular location and hair bundle morphology. The voltage responses of selected hair cells to intracellular current steps and sinusoids in the frequency range of 0.5-200 Hz were...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Baird RA

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. High-threshold Ca2+ currents were studied in large pyramidal cells acutely dissociated from the rat amygdaloid complex. L-, N-, and P-type currents were present in about equal proportions in these cells and accounted for most of the whole-cell current. ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Foehring RC,Scroggs RS

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The synthesis of information from different sensory modalities in the superior colliculus is an important precursor of attentive and orientation behavior. 2. This integration of multisensory information is critically dependent on inputs from a small area of association cortex, the anterior ectosylvian sulcus. Remov...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Wallace MT,Stein BE

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The present study was designed to determine the effects of microstimulation of the medullary reticular formation (MRF) on the locomotor activity of the cat in the absence of phasic afferent feedback from the limbs. To this end, both short (33 ms) and long (200 ms) trains of stimuli (trains of 0.2-ms pulses at 330 H...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Perreault MC,Rossignol S,Drew T

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The homeostatic model of delta sleep has provided a useful framework for basic sleep research. This model is based on the relation of delta EEG to the duration of prior waking in man, a relation highlighted by the marked increase (rebound) in the delta EEG of nonrapid eye movement (NREM) sleep that follows total sl...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Feinberg I,Campbell IG

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The aims of this study were 1) to determine whether the impulse activity in rabbit aortic baroreceptors (BRs) was influenced by changes in nonpulsatile flow through the aortic lumen and 2) to examine the BR and aortic arch responses to changes in temperature. 2. An in vitro aortic arch-aortic nerve preparation was ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Munch PA

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. A total of 312 cutaneous afferent units identified in the rat foot as belonging to one of nine major types of sensory receptors were included in the present study. A natural stimulus set was defined to differentiate optimally among those receptor types according to the distinguishing response patterns that it produ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Leem JW,Willis WD,Weller SC,Chung JM

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The excitation of lumbar motoneurons by reticulospinal axons traveling in the medial longitudinal fasciculus (MLF) was investigated in the newborn rat using intracellular recordings from lumbar motoneurons in an in vitro preparation of the brain stem and spinal cord. The tracer DiI (1,1'-dioctadecyl-3,3,3',3'-tetra...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Floeter MK,Lev-Tov A

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Ionic conductances controlled by type A and type B cholecystokinin (CCK) receptors were studied in neurons of the rat nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS) and dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus (DMNV), using intracellular and whole-cell patch clamp recordings in current or voltage clamp configuration during bath applica...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Branchereau P,Champagnat J,Denavit-Saubié M

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Bicuculline-induced epileptiform bursts in slices of neocortical tissue resected from children (3 mo to 14 yr) undergoing neurosurgical treatment for intractable epilepsy were studied with conventional intracellular recording techniques. The purposes of this study were to characterize the bursts evoked in immature ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Kim YI,Peacock WJ,Dudek FE

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Using patch-clamp recordings, expression of voltage-activated ion channels by identified glial cells in situ was studied in hippocampal slices derived from 5- to 24-day-old rats. Glial cells were filled with Lucifer yellow during recording, and were identified by staining for glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP)....

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Sontheimer H,Waxman SG

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. In a search for correlated fast rhythms in recurrent laryngeal (RL) expiratory (E) activities, we performed spectral and coherence analysis on bilateral RL nerve discharges in 54 midcollicular decerebrate, paralyzed cats. 2. Inspiratory (I) RL activities showed in almost all cases high-frequency oscillations (HFO, ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Huang WX,Christakos CN,Cohen MI,He Q

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. A novel approach for analyzing transients in passive structures called "the method of moments" is introduced. It provides, as a special case, an analytic method for calculating the time delay and speed of propagation of electrical signals in any passive dendritic tree without the need for numerical simulations. 2. ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Agmon-Snir H,Segev I

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The hyperpolarization that follows tetanic stimulation was recorded intra-axonally from the internodal region of intramuscular myelinated motor axons. 2. The peak amplitude of the posttetanic hyperpolarization (PTH) that followed stimulation at 20-100 Hz for < or = 35 s increased with increasing train duration, rea...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Morita K,David G,Barrett JN,Barrett EF

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. We studied the effect of temporarily inhibiting neurons in the caudal fastigial nucleus in two rhesus macaques trained to make saccades to jumping targets. We placed injections of the gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) agonist muscimol unilaterally or bilaterally at sites in the caudal fastigial nucleus where we had re...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Robinson FR,Straube A,Fuchs AF

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Whole-cell patch-clamp recordings of excitatory postsynaptic currents (EPSCs) were made from guinea pig hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cells. The sensitivity of paired pulse facilitation (PPF) and EPSC variance to changes in synaptic transmission was investigated and the results were compared with the changes in these p...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Manabe T,Wyllie DJ,Perkel DJ,Nicoll RA

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. We studied the effect of electrical stimulation of the peribrachial region (PBR) in the brain stem on the visual response of single cells in the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (dLGN) to a light slit presented in a series of positions across the receptive field. The response was plotted against slit position, giv...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Hartveit E,Ramberg SI,Heggelund P

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Neuronlike differentiation of Y-79 retinoblastoma was chemically induced in vitro, by plating the cells onto a poly-D-lysine and laminin substrate. The changes in voltage-dependent conductances after 48-72 h were examined with the whole-cell tight-seal and the perforated-patch recording techniques. 2. Although outw...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： del Pilar Gomez M,Waloga G,Nasi E

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. There is a long-standing debate about whether the large spiny cells in the hilar region of the hippocampus should be classified as pyramidal cells of Ammon's horn or as a distinct cell type of the dentate gyrus. The rationale for grouping these hilar neurons (termed "mossy cells") with pyramidal cells of Ammon's ho...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Buckmaster PS,Strowbridge BW,Schwartzkroin PA

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Over two thirds of caudal medullary raphespinal neurons respond to electrical stimulation of the vestibular nerve, and it has been suggested that these neurons may participate in the generation of vestibulospinal and vestibulosympathetic reflexes. The objective of the present study was to determine which vestibular...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Yates BJ,Goto T,Kerman I,Bolton PS

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Firing of cerebral neuron, C-PR, produced complex bilateral movements of various regions of the body of the marine mollusc Aplysia californica. The movements were similar to those seen when the animal assumes the head-up feeding posture during food-induced arousal. Muscles of the neck largely contracted in transver...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Nagahama T,Weiss KR,Kupfermann I

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Compartmental modeling experiments were carried out in an anatomically characterized neocortical pyramidal cell to study the integrative behavior of a complex dendritic tree containing active membrane mechanisms. Building on a previously presented hypothesis, this work provides further support for a novel principle...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Mel BW

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. An electrophysiological study of the D-glucose sensitivity of X-organ (XO) neurosecretory cell bodies in crayfish was carried out with the use of microelectrodes, perforated, and cell-attached patch-clamp techniques. 2. Glucose depolarizes the membrane potential of XO cells in a concentration-dependent manner. 3. D...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： García E,Benítez A,Onetti CG

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. A quantitative analysis of facilitation during the kindling stimulation to the amygdala was conducted by measuring the area between the excitatory potential and the baseline in the averaged tetanic response recorded at the entorhinal cortex. The changes in facilitation were then compared with the development of ele...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Matsuura S,Hirayama K,Murata R

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. In alpha-chloralose-anesthetized cats the region surrounding the ventral posterolateral nucleus (VPL) of the thalamus was investigated to locate foci with input from the urinary bladder stimulated by application of intravesical pressure. The locations of the recording sites were verified in Nissl-stained histologic...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Brüggemann J,Vahle-Hinz C,Kniffki KD

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00