期刊
JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
卷 109, 期 8, 页码 1989-1995出版社
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00600.2012
关键词
awake auditory cortex; electrophysiology; membrane potential
资金
- National Institutes of Health
- Swartz Foundation
Hromadka T, Zador AM, DeWeese MR. Up states are rare in awake auditory cortex. J Neurophysiol 109: 1989-1995, 2013. First published January 23, 2013; doi:10.1152/jn.00600.2012.-The dynamics of subthreshold membrane potential provide insight into the organization of activity in neural circuits. In many brain areas, membrane potential is bistable, transiting between a relatively hyperpolarized down state and a depolarized up state. These up and down states, which have been proposed to play a number of computational roles, have mainly been studied in anesthetized and in vitro preparations. Here, we have used intracellular recordings to characterize the dynamics of membrane potential in the auditory cortex of awake rats. We find that long up states are rare in the awake auditory cortex, with only 0.4% of up states >500 ms. Most neurons displayed only brief up states (bumps) and spent on average similar to 1% of recording time in up states >500 ms. We suggest that the near absence of long up states in awake auditory cortex may reflect an adaptation to the rapid processing of auditory stimuli.
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