APStracts (ISSN 1080-4757) Vol. 2, 1995

The American Physiological Society

• MUSCARINE INHIBITS w-CONOTOXIN-SENSITIVE CALCIUM CHANNELS IN A VOLTAGE AND TIME DEPENDENT MODE IN THE HUMAN NEUROBLASTOMA CELL LINE SH-SY5Y. TOSELLI, Mauro, Paola PERIN and Vanni TAGLIETTI. Istituto di Fisiologia Generale, Universita' di Pavia Via Forlanini 6, I- 27100, Pavia, Italy. APStracts 2:0172N, 1995.
• Mechanisms Underlying Direction Selectivity of Neurons in the Primary Visual Cortex of the Macaque. Sato, Hiromichi, Narumi Katsuyama, Hiroshi Tamura, Yoshio Hata & Tadaharu Tsumoto. Department of Neurophysiology, Biomedical Research Center, Osaka University Medical School, Suita, Osaka 565, JAPAN, Present Address: Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences, Osaka University, Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560 Japan, and Laboratory for Neural Information Processing, Frontier Research Program, The RIKEN Institute, Wako, Saitama, 351-01 JAPAN. APStracts 2:0173N, 1995.
• The effects of furosemide on distortion product otoacoustic emissions and on neuronal responses in the anteroventral cochlear nucleus. Rubsamen, Rudolf, David M. Mills, Edwin W Rubel, Virginia Merrill Bloedel. Hearing Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 (USA). APStracts 2:0174N, 1995.
• CALCIUM ACTIVATED RELEASE OF NITRIC OXIDE POTENTIATES EXCITATORY SYNAPTIC POTENTIALS IN IMMATURE RAT SYMPATHETIC PREGANGLIONIC NEURONST. Wu, S.Y. and N. J. Dun. Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Medical College of Ohio, 3000 Arlington Avenue, Toledo, OH 43614 USA. APStracts 2:0175N, 1995.
• Proprioceptive consequences of tendon vibration during movement. Cordo, P., V. S. Gurfinkel, L. Bevan and G. K. Kerr. .Robert S. Dow Neurological Sciences Institute, Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center and Department of Physiology, Oregon Health Sciences University, Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, School of Dentistry, Oregon Health Sciences University, School of Human Movement Studies, Queensland University of Technology APStracts 2:0176N, 1995.
• Segment Specific Effects of FMRFamide on Membrane Properties of Heart Interneurons in the Leech. Schmidt, Joachim, Siglinde Gramoll, Ronald L. Calabrese. Department of Biology, Emory University, 1510 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30322. APStracts 2:0177N, 1995.
• Frequency-dependent depression of excitatory synaptic transmission is independent of activation of MCPG-sensitive presynaptic metabotropic glutamate receptors in cultured hippocampal neurons. Maki, Reiko, Dana D. Cummings, and Marc A. Dichter. David Mahoney Institute of Neurological Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, Departments of Neurology and Pharmacology, University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, and The Graduate Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, 19104. APStracts 2:0178N, 1995.
• Responses of Neurons in the Auditory Pathway of the Barn Owl to Partially Correlated Binaural Signals. Albeck, Yehuda and Masakazu Konishi. From. APStracts 2:0179N, 1995.
• Synaptically-evoked Prolonged Depolarizations in the Developing Auditory System. Vibhakar C. Kotak, Vibhakar C., and Dan H. Sanes. Center for Neural Science and Department of Biology, 6 Washington Place, New York University, New York, NY 10003. APStracts 2:0180N, 1995.
• Subthreshold synaptic activation of voltage-gated Ca2+ channels mediates a localized Ca2+ influx into the dendrites of hippocampal pyramidal neurons. Magee, Jeffrey C., Geri Christofi, Hiroyshi Miyakawa, Brian Christie, Nechama Lasser-Ross, and Daniel Johnston. Division of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, Texas 77030, Department of Physiology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT. Present address: University of Oxford Clinical School, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford, OX3 9DU Department of Cellular Neurobiology, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sceince, 1432--1 Hironouchi, Hachioji, Tokyo 192--03, Japan, Department of Physiology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, 10595. APStracts 2:0181N, 1995.
• The Effect of Temperature on the normal and adapted vestibulo-ocular reflex in the Goldfish. McElligott, James G., Michael Weiser, and Robert Baker. Department of Pharmacology, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19140, Department of Physiology and Neuroscience, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016. APStracts 2:0182N, 1995.
• Spindle Waves are Propagating Synchronized Oscillations in the Ferret LGNd in vitro. Kim, Uhnoh, Thierry Bal, and David A. McCormick. Section of Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06510 USA, (203) 785-4577, FAX: (203) 785- 5263. APStracts 2:0183N, 1995.
• INHIBITORY CONTROL OF EXCITABLE DENDRITES IN NEOCORTEX. Kim, Han G., Michael Beierlein, and Barry W. Connors. Department of Neuroscience, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912. APStracts 2:0184N, 1995.
• Deafferentation Increases the Intracellular Calcium of Cochlear Nucleus Neurons in the Embryonic Chick. Zirpel, Lance, Edward A. Lachica, and William R. Lippe. Department of Physiology & Biophysics, SJ-40, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center, RL-30, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195. APStracts 2:0185N, 1995.
• A Persistent Na+ Conductance in Medium-Sized Neostriatal Neurons: Characterization Using Infrared Videomicroscopy and Whole-cell Patch Clamp Recordings. Cepeda, Carlos, Scott H. Chandler, Lincoln W. Shumate and Michael S. Levine. Mental Retardation Research Center and Department of Physiological Science, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1759. APStracts 2:0186N, 1995.
• Existence in the nucleus incertus of the cat of horizontal eye movement- related neurons projecting to the cerebellar flocculus. CHERON, GUY, SVEN SAUSSEZ, NICO GERRITS, AND EMILE GODAUX. Laboratory of Neurosciences, University of Mons-Hainaut, Belgium; Department of Anatomy, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, The Netherlands. APStracts 2:0187N, 1995.
• Addition of Carbonic Anhydrase Augments Extracellular pH Buffering in Rat Cerebral Cortex. Huang, W., S.E. Smith and M. Chesler. Dept. of Physiology and Neuroscience and Dept. of Neurosurgery, N.Y.U. Medical Center, 550 First Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10016. APStracts 2:0188N, 1995.
• Stimulation at 1-5 Hz does not produce long-term depression or depotentiation in the hippocampus of the adult rat in vivo . Errington, M.L., T.V.P. Bliss, G.Richter-Levin, K. Yenk, V. Doyere and S. Laroche. Division of Neurophysiology, National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London NW7 1AA, U.K., *Laboratoire de Neurobiologie de l'Apprentissage et de la M[acute]emoire, CNRS URA 1491, Universit[acute]e de Paris Sud, 91405 Orsay, France. APStracts 2:0189N, 1995.
• Intrinsic Properties of Deep Dorsal Horn Neurons in the L6-S1 Spinal Cord of the Intact Rat. Jiang, Minchun, Corey L. Cleland and G.F. Gebhart. Department of Pharmacology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242. APStracts 2:0190N, 1995.
• Dopamine Modulation of Two Subthreshold Currents Produces Phase Shifts in Activity of an Identified Motoneuron. Harris-Warrick, Ronald M., Lisa M. Coniglio, Robert M. Levini, Shay Gueron, and John Guckenheimer. Section of Neurobiology and Behavior, Seeley G. Mudd Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, Mathematics Department and 4 Center for Applied Mathematics, 504 ETC Building, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, Department of Mathematics, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel 32000. APStracts 2:0191N, 1995.
• Motor Adaptation to Coriolis Force Perturbations of Reaching Movements: Endpoint but not Trajectory Adaptation Transfers to the Non-exposed Arm. DiZio, Paul and James R. Lackner. Ashton Graybiel Spatial Orientation Laboratory, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02254-9110. APStracts 2:0192N, 1995.
• Odorant-Specific Spatial Patterns in Mucosal Activity Predict Perceptual Differences Among Odorants. Kent, Paul F., Steven L. Youngentob and Paul R. Sheehe. Department of Physiology, Department of Neurology, Department of Preventive Medicine, The Clinical Olfactory Research Center, SUNY Health Science Center, Syracuse, 750 East Adams Street, Syracuse, NY 13210. APStracts 2:0193N, 1995.
• Quantitative Analysis of Dorsal Horn Cell Receptive Fields Following Limited Deafferentation. Koerber, H. Richard and Paul B. Brown. Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, Department of Physiology, West Virginia University Health Sci. Center, Morgantown, WV 26506. APStracts 2:0194N, 1995.
• On the mechanism of block by Zeneca ZD 7288 of the hyperpolarization- activated inward rectifying current ( I h ) in guinea-pig substantia nigra neurones in vitro. HARRIS, NOEL C., and ANDREW CONSTANTI. Department of Pharmacology, The School of Pharmacy, 29/39 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AX (U.K.). APStracts 2:0195N, 1995.
• The effect of stimulation on burst firing in cat primary auditory cortex. Bowman, Denise M., Jos J. Eggermont and Geoff M. Smith. Behavioural Neuroscience Research Group, Department of Psychology, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. APStracts 2:0196N, 1995.
• Axotomy induces a transient and localized elevation of the free intracellular calcium concentration to the milimolar range. Ziv, Noam E., Micha E. Spira. From. APStracts 2:0197N, 1995.
• actions of Norepinephrine on Rat hypoglossal motoneurons. Parkis, Marjorie A., Douglas A. Bayliss, and Albert J. Berger. Department of Physiology and Biophysics SJ-40, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle Washington 98195. APStracts 2:0198N, 1995.
• GABAA and GABAC Receptors on Hybrid Bass Retinal Bipolar Cells. Qian, Haohua, John E. Dowling. Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 and the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543. APStracts 2:0199N, 1995.
• Adenosine pre- and postsynaptic modulation of glutamate-dependent calcium activity in hypothalamic neurons. Obrietan, Karl, Andrei B. Belousov, H.Craig Heller and Anthony N. van den Pol. Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305 and Section of Neurosurgery, Yale University, School of Medicine, New Haven CT 06520. APStracts 2:0200N, 1995.
• Neural Computation of Motion in the Fly Visual System: Quadratic Nonlinearity of Responses Induced by Picrotoxin in the HS and CH Cells. Kondoh, Y., Y. Hasegawa, J. Okuma, and F. Takahashi. Honda R&D Co. Ltd., Wako Research Center, Chuo 1-4-1, Wako, Saitama 351-01, Japan. APStracts 2:0201N, 1995.
• VESTIBULAR AND VISUAL CLIMBING FIBER SIGNALS EVOKED IN THE UVULA-NODULUS OF THE RABBIT CEREBELLUM BY NATURAL STIMULATION. Barmack, N.H. and H. Shojaku. R.S. Dow Neurological Sciences Institute, Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital & Medical Center, Portland, Oregon, USA and Department of Otolaryngology, Toyama Medical & Pharmaceutical University, Toyama, JAPAN. APStracts 2:0202N, 1995.
• SEMICIRCULAR CANAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL VESTIBULO-OCULAR REFLEX: A MODEL-BASED APPROACH. Yakushin, Sergei, Mingjia Dai, Jun-Ichi Suzuki, Theodore Raphan and Bernard Cohen. Departments of Neurology and Physiology and Biophysics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, 10029 USA, the Department of Otolaryngology, Teikyo University, Tokyo, Japan, the Departments of Computer and Information Science and Experimental Psychology, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York 11210. APStracts 2:0203N, 1995.
• Intrinsic Neuromodulation in the Tritonia Swim CPG: Serotonin Mediates Both Neuromodulation and Neurotransmission by the Dorsal Swim Interneurons. Katz, Paul S. and William N. Frost. Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, TX 77030 USA. APStracts 2:0204N, 1995.
• SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT OF pH AND MEMBRANE POTENTIAL IN RAT DORSAL VAGAL MOTONEURONES DURING NORMOXIA AND HYPOXIA: A COMPARISON IN BICARBONATE AND HEPES BUFFERS. Cowan, A. I. and R. L. Martin. From. APStracts 2:0205N, 1995.
• Trajectory Adaptation to a Non-linear Visuomotor Transformation: Evidence of Motion Planning in Visually Perceived Space. FLANAGAN, J. RANDALL AND ASHWINI K. RAO. Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6 and Department of Movement Sciences, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027. APStracts 2:0206N, 1995.
• Recruitment of GABA A inhibition in rat neocortex is limited and not NMDA- dependent. Ling, Douglas S. F. and Larry S. Benardo. Departments of Pharmacology and Neurology, State University of New York - Health Science Center at Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY 11203 (U.S.A.). APStracts 2:0207N, 1995.
• Ca2+ release from Ca2+ stores, particularly from ryanodine-sensitive Ca2+ stores, is required for the induction of LTD in cultured cerebellar Purkinje cells. Kohda, Kazuhisa, Takafumi Inoue and Katsuhiko Mikoshiba. Department of Molecular Neurobiology, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo. Tokyo, 108, Japan. APStracts 2:0208N, 1995.
• CALCIUM AND POTASSIUM CURRENTS IN THE FAST COXAL DEPRESSOR MOTONEURONE OF THE COCKROACH PERIPLANETA AMERICANA. DAVID, JONATHAN A. AND ROBERT M. PITMAN. School of Biological and Medical Sciences, Gatty Marine Laboratory, University of St. Andrews, Fife, KY16 8LB, U.K. APStracts 2:0209N, 1995.
• Properties of Motor Units Following self-Reinnervation of the Cat Superior Oblique Muscle. Waldeck, Robert F., E. Hazel Murphy, and Martin J. Pinter. Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19129. APStracts 2:0210N, 1995.
• Hebbian Induction of LTP in visual cortex: A perforated patch-clamp study in cultured neurons. Otsu, Yo, Fumitaka Kimura and Tadaharu Tsumoto. Department of Neurophysiology, Biomedical Research Center, Osaka University Medical School, Yamadaoka, Suita 565 JAPAN. APStracts 2:0211N, 1995.