Chronic androgen treatment increases action potential duration in the electric organ of Sternopygus
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Chronic androgen treatment increases action potential duration in the electric organ of Sternopygus.
The quasi-sinusoidal electric organ discharge (EOD) of the weakly electric fish Sternopygus is involved in communication and orientation. Each monophasic pulse of the low-intensity EOD is a compound action potential (AP) from the simultaneously firing electrocytes of the electric organ. EOD frequency is lower and EOD pulse duration longer in sexually mature males than in sexually mature females...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Neuroscience
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0270-6474,1529-2401
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.11-08-02349.1991