A LOW THRESHOLD CALCIUM SPIKE MEDIATES FIRING PATTERN ALTERATIONS IN PONTINE RETICULAR NEURONS
A LOW THRESHOLD CALCIUM SPIKE MEDIATES FIRING PATTERN ALTERATIONS IN PONTINE RETICULAR NEURONS
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DOI:
10.1126/science.3775364
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发表时间:
1986-11-07
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影响因子:
56.9
通讯作者:
MCCARLEY, RW
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作者:
GREENE, RW;HAAS, HL;MCCARLEY, RW
Intracellular electrical recordings in an in vitro slice preparation of the brain stem 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 data 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 differing 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.