| Literature DB >> 6879204 |
Abstract
Intracellular recordings from mammalian neuroendocrine cells showed that steady, injected currents can modify and block periodic spike bursts previously associated with increased neurohormone release. Spike afterpotentials could sum to form plateau potentials, which generated bursts and did not depend on axonal conduction or chemical synapses. Therefore, bursting involves a spike-dependent, positive-feedback mechanism endogenous to single neuroendocrine cells.Entities:
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Year: 1983 PMID: 6879204 DOI: 10.1126/science.6879204
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN: 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728