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Short Duration Waveforms Recorded Extracellularly From Freely Moving Rats Are Representative Of Axonal Activity, Ashlee A. Robbins, Steven E. Fox, Gregory L. Holmes, Rod C. Scott, Jeremy M. Barry
Short Duration Waveforms Recorded Extracellularly From Freely Moving Rats Are Representative Of Axonal Activity, Ashlee A. Robbins, Steven E. Fox, Gregory L. Holmes, Rod C. Scott, Jeremy M. Barry
Dartmouth Scholarship
While extracellular somatic action potentials from freely moving rats have been well characterized, axonal activity has not. We report direct extracellular tetrode recordings of putative axons whose principal feature is a short duration waveform (SDW) with an average peak-trough length less than 179 μs. While SDW recordings using tetrodes have previously been treated as questionable or classified as cells, we hypothesize that they are representative of axonal activity. These waveforms have significantly shorter duration than somatic action potentials, are triphasic and are therefore similar to classic descriptions of microelectrode recordings in white matter and of in vitro action potential propagation …
Modulation Of Synaptic Transmission By Adenosine In Layer 2/3 Of The Rat Visual Cortex In Vitro, Nicholas M. Bannon
Modulation Of Synaptic Transmission By Adenosine In Layer 2/3 Of The Rat Visual Cortex In Vitro, Nicholas M. Bannon
Master's Theses
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Nmda Receptors In The Dorsal Vagal Complex Of Normal And Diabetic Mice, Eva C. Bach
Nmda Receptors In The Dorsal Vagal Complex Of Normal And Diabetic Mice, Eva C. Bach
Theses and Dissertations--Physiology
The dorsal vagal complex (DVC), containing the nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS) and the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus nerve (DMV), plays a pivotal role in autonomic regulation. Afferent fibers from peripheral organs and higher brain centers synapse in the NTS, which integrates these synaptic connections as well as information from systemically circulating hormones and metabolites. The integrated information is relayed to the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus nerve (DMV), which in turn, projects motor fibers to elicit parasympathetic control of digestive and other viscera. Physiological functions mediated by the DVC are disrupted in diabetic patients and …