1. Study was made of the action of 4-aminopyridine (5 X 10(-5) M) on synaptic transmission in the last abdominal ganglion of Periplaneta americana. The 'oil-gap' technique was used to record postsynaptic events in a single giant axon. 2. 4-AP quickly increased the 'background' of postsynaptic activity, which consisted of 'spontaneous' unitary EPSPs and IPSPs. Postsynaptic spikes were also propa...

Connexin (Cx) proteins and gap junctions support the formation of neuronal and glial syncytia that are linked to different forms of rhythmic firing and oscillatory activity in the CNS. In this study, quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) was used to profile developmental expression of two specific Cx proteins, namely glial Cx43 and neuronal Cx36, in postnatal lu...

OBJECTIVE The aim of our study was to determine the main electrophysiological alterations associated with cardiac dilation in MS200 strain Syrian hamsters, a model of genetically determined cardiomyopathy. METHODS Ventricular action potentials (APs) were recorded with standard microelectrodes in isolated hearts from 120-day-old cardiomyopathic (strain MS200) and age-matched control (strain CH...

OBJECTIVE To study the effects and underlying mechanisms of voltage-gated K(+) channels on the proliferation of multiple myeloma cells. METHODS RPMI-8226 MM cell line was used for the experiments. Voltage-gated K(+) currents and the resting potential were recorded by whole-cell patch-clamp technique. RT-PCR detected Kv channel mRNA expression. Cell viability was analyzed with MTT assay. Cell ...

ee Hyun Choi orea Institute of Science and Technology enter for Neural Science 9-1 Hawolgok-dong, Seongbuk-gu eoul, Korea 136-791 and niversity of Science and Technology epartment of Neuroscience 13 Gwahangno, Yuseong-gu aejon, Korea 305-333 Abstract. We applied near-infrared spectroscopy NIRS and electroencephalography EEG simultaneously on the mouse brain and investigated the hemodynamic resp...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the treatment with 4-aminopyridine (4-AP, potassium channel inhibitor) and Bay K 8644 (calcium channel activator) in experimentally evoked verapamil poisoning in rats and to compare the results of this treatment with the effectiveness of widely accepted methods (adrenaline, calcium compounds). The experiment was carried out on male and ...

Copper tolerance among Arabidopsis ecotypes is inversely correlated with long-term K(+) leakage and positively correlated with short-term K(+) leakage (A. Murphy, L. Taiz [1997] New Phytol 136: 211-222). To probe the mechanism of the early phase of K(+) efflux, we tested various channel blockers on copper and peroxide-induced K(+) efflux from seedling roots. The K(+) channel blockers tetraethyl...

Slow, pacemaker-like firing is due to intrinsic membrane properties in substantia nigra compacta (SNc) neurons in vitro. How these properties interact with afferent synaptic inputs is not fully understood. In this study, intracellular recordings from SNc neurons in brain slices showed that spontaneous action potentials (APs) were attenuated when generated from lower than normal threshold. Such ...