Background Synaptic Activity Is Sparse in Neocortex
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Background synaptic activity is sparse in neocortex.
Neurons are continually exposed to background synaptic activity in vivo. This is thought to influence neural information processing, but background levels of excitation and inhibition remain controversial. Here we show, using whole-cell recordings in anesthetized rats, that spontaneous depolarizations ("Up states") in neocortical pyramidal neurons are driven by sparse, mostly excitatory synapti...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neuroscience
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0270-6474,1529-2401
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2152-06.2006