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J Neurophysiol 39: 311-323, 1976;
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Journal of Neurophysiology, Vol 39, Issue 2 311-323, Copyright © 1976 by APS

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Reversal properties of climbing fiber potential in cat Purkinje cells: an example of a distributed synapse

R. Llinas and C. Nicholson

1. The electrophysiological properties of the EPSP generated in Purkinje cells by the activation of CFs were studies in the cat cerebellar cortex. 2. CF-EPSPs were evoked by electrical stimulation of the cerebellar white matter and recorded intracellularly from the soma of the Purkinje cells. 3. Current was injected into the Purkinje cells via the recording micropipette using a bridge amplifer in order to study the reversal properties of the EPSP. 4. The CF-EPSP reversal was biphasic with the early portion reversing first. 5. The reversed EPSP waveform was not a mirror image of the EPSP, but displayed a briefer time course. 6. A four-compartment computer stimulation showed that the reversal properities of the CF-EPSP were explicable in terms of a distributed synapse on a cable. 7. The biphasic reversal and asymmetry were shown to be due to the spatially nonuniform potential distribution created by the somatic current injection, which predominantly reversed the proximal part of the distributed synapse. Delayed rectification may also have contributed to the reversal asymmetry. 8. The advantages of a distributed synapse over a point synapse are discussed and the reversal properties of the CF-EPSP compared to those of the Ia-evoked EPSP in motoneurons.


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