TRANSMISSION AT A CENTRAL INHIBITORY SYNAPSE .4. QUANTAL STRUCTURE OF SYNAPTIC NOISE

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KORN, H [1 ]
FABER, DS [1 ]
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[1] SUNY BUFFALO, DEPT PHYSIOL, NEUROBIOL LAB, BUFFALO, NY 14260 USA
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10.1152/jn.1990.63.1.198
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Q189 [神经科学];
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071006 ;
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Continuous segments of synaptic noise were recorded, in 12 experiments, from the voltage-clamped goldfish Mauthner (M-)-cell soma during depolarizations byond the Cl- equilibrium potential so that spontaneous inhibitory postsynaptic currents (IPSCs) were outward going, i.e., opposite in polarity to excitatory transients. Inhibitory components constituting the noise were detected with a program based on their expected waveforms, and their amplitude distributions were analyzed according to a quantal model to determine whether these responses, presumably because of asynchronous impulses in a population of presynaptic cells, were integral multiples of the same minimal unit.
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