A Quantitative Description of the Dynamics of Excitation and Inhibition in the Eye of Limulus

By means of intracellular microelectrode techniques, we have measured the dynamics of the several processes which translate light stimulation into spike activity in the Limulus eye. The transductions from light to voltage and from voltage to spike rate, and the lateral inhibitory transduction from s...

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Autores principales: Knight, Bruce W., Toyoda, Jun-Ichi, Dodge, Frederick A.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Rockefeller University Press 1970
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2225966/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/5507090
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description By means of intracellular microelectrode techniques, we have measured the dynamics of the several processes which translate light stimulation into spike activity in the Limulus eye. The transductions from light to voltage and from voltage to spike rate, and the lateral inhibitory transduction from spike rate to voltage, we have characterized by transfer functions. We have checked the appropriateness of treating the eye as a system of linear transducers under our experimental conditions. The response of the eye to a large spot of light undergoing sine flicker has been correctly predicted.
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spelling pubmed-22259662008-04-23 A Quantitative Description of the Dynamics of Excitation and Inhibition in the Eye of Limulus Knight, Bruce W. Toyoda, Jun-Ichi Dodge, Frederick A. J Gen Physiol Article By means of intracellular microelectrode techniques, we have measured the dynamics of the several processes which translate light stimulation into spike activity in the Limulus eye. The transductions from light to voltage and from voltage to spike rate, and the lateral inhibitory transduction from spike rate to voltage, we have characterized by transfer functions. We have checked the appropriateness of treating the eye as a system of linear transducers under our experimental conditions. The response of the eye to a large spot of light undergoing sine flicker has been correctly predicted. The Rockefeller University Press 1970-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC2225966/ /pubmed/5507090 Text en Copyright © 1970 by The Rockefeller University Press This article is distributed under the terms of an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike–No Mirror Sites license for the first six months after the publication date (see http://www.rupress.org/terms). After six months it is available under a Creative Commons License (Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 4.0 Unported license, as described at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).
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