APStracts (ISSN 1080-4757) Vol. 3, 1996

The American Physiological Society

• Transitions between pursuit eye movements and fixation in the monkey: dependence on context. Krauzlis, R.J. and F.A. Miles. Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. APStracts 3:0092N, 1996.
• METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE RECEPTORS SWITCH VISUAL RESPONSE MODE OF LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS CELLS FROM BURST TO TONIC. Godwin, Dwayne W., J. William Vaughan, and S. Murray Sherman. Department of Neurobiology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794-5230. APStracts 3:0093N, 1996.
• The threshold for detecting temperature changes in a spider thermoreceptor. Ehn, Rudolf and Harald Tichy. Institut f[umlaut]ur Zoologie, Universit[umlaut]at Wien, Biologiezentrum, Althanstrasse 14, A-1090 Wien, Austria. APStracts 3:0094N, 1996.
• Uniform Growth and Neuronal Integration. oystein H. Olsen, Farzan Nadim, Andrew A. V. Hill and Donald H. Edwards. Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, the Neuroscience and Behavior Program, Morrill Science Center (Biology), University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, and the Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, 30302-4010. APStracts 3:0095N, 1996.
• Neuroprotection by propofol in acute mechanical injury: Role of GABAergic inhibition. Hollrigel, Greg S., Katalin Toth, and Ivan Soltesz. Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92717, Department of Functional Neuroanatomy, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Budapest, Hungary. APStracts 3:0096N, 1996.
• INCREASED CALCIUM CURRENT IN CAROTID BODY GLOMUS CELLS FOLLOWING IN-VIVO ACCLIMATIZATION TO CHRONIC HYPOXIA. Hempleman, Steven C.. Department of Medicine, 0623A, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093. APStracts 3:0097N, 1996.
• Dynamic, Spatially Non-Uniform Calcium Regulation in Frog Rods Exposed to Light. Sean T. McCarthy, James P. Younger, and W. Geoffrey Owen. Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Neurobiology Division, University of California, Berkeley, California. APStracts 3:0098N, 1996.
• MODULATION OF CALCIUM CURRENTS BY ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY. Li, Minxu, Min Jia, R. Douglas Fields, Phillip G. Nelson. Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-4480. APStracts 3:0099N, 1996.
• Transfer of Gain Changes from Targeting to Other Types of Saccade in the Monkey: Constraints on Possible Sites of Saccadic Gain Adaptation. Fuchs, Albert F., David Reiner, and Milton Pong. Regional Primate Research Center and Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195. APStracts 3:0100N, 1996.
• Eye-centered, head-centered and intermediate coding of remembered sound locations in area LIP. Brigitte Stricanne, Richard Andersen, and Pietro Mazzoni. Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cogniscience, Universite Paul Sabatier, Faculte de Medecine de Rangueil, 133, route de Narbonne, 31 000 Toulouse, France, Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Mail Code 216-76, Pasadena, California 91125, (818) 395-8336, fax (818) 795-2397, e- mail: andersen@vis.caltech.edu, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, 710 West 168th Street, New York, New York 10032- 2603. APStracts 3:0101N, 1996.
• Latency: Another Potential Code for Feature Binding in Striate Cortex. Gawne, Timothy J., Troels W. Kjaer, Barry J. Richmond. Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-4415 APStracts 3:0102N, 1996.
• Plasticity in an Electrosensory system I: General Features of a Dynamic Sensory Filter. Bastian, Joseph. Department of Zoology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA. APStracts 3:0103N, 1996.
• Plasticity in an Electrosensory system II: Postsynaptic Events Associated With a Dynamic Sensory Filter. Bastian, Joseph. Department of Zoology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA. APStracts 3:0104N, 1996.
• KINETICS OF SLOW INACTIVATION OF PERSISTENT SODIUM CURRENT IN LAYER V NEURONS OF MOUSE NEOCORTICAL SLICES. Fleidervish, I. A. and M. J. Gutnick. Department of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, and Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva 84105, Israel. APStracts 3:0105N, 1996.
• Gq/11 and PLC-[beta]1 Mediate the Substance P-Induced Inhibition of an Inward Rectifier K + Channel in Brain Neurons. Takano, K., J. Yasufuku-Takano, T. Kozasa, W. D. Singer, S. Nakajima, and Y. Nakajima. Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology and  Department of Pharmacology, University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60612; _ Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75235. APStracts 3:0106N, 1996.
• DISTINCT SYNAPTIC LOCI OF CA 2+ /CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II NECESSARY FOR LONG-TERM POTENTIATION AND DEPRESSION. STANTON, PATRIC K. AND ALLYSON T. GAGE. Departments of Neuroscience and Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 10461-1602. APStracts 3:0107N, 1996.
• Glutamate and N-acetyl-aspartyl-glutamate block HVA calcium currents in frog olfactory bulb interneurons via an mGluR2/3-like receptor. Bischofberger, Josef and Detlev Schild. Physiologisches Institut, Universit[umlaut]at G[diaeresis]ottingen, Humboldtallee 23, D37073 G[diaeresis]ottingen, FRG, T. 49-551-395915, F. 49- 551-395923, sd@helena.ukps.gwdg.de. APStracts 3:0108N, 1996.
• VOLTAGE-DEPENDENT FACILITATION OF CALCIUM CHANNELS IN RAT NEOSTRIATAL NEURONS. Song, Wen-Jie and D. James Surmeier. Dept. of Anatomy and Neurobiology, College of Medicine, University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN 38163. APStracts 3:0109N, 1996.
• Responses of Medullary Reticular Formation Neurons to Input from the Male Genitalia. Hubscher, Charles H. and Richard D. Johnson. Department of Physiological Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and University of Florida Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610-0144. APStracts 3:0110N, 1996.
• Properties of a Slow Nonselective Cation Conductance Modulated by Neurotensin and Other Neurotransmitters in Midbrain Dopaminergic Neurons. Farkas, Ronald H., Pei-Yu Chien, Shigehiro Nakajima, Yasuko Nakajima. Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology* and Department of Pharmacology(, University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60612. APStracts 3:0111N, 1996.
• DUAL COMPONENT EXCITATORY AMINO ACID MEDIATED RESPONSES IN TRIGEMINAL MOTONEURONS AND THEIR MODULATION BY SEROTONIN IN VITRO. Trueblood, P.R., M.S. Levine, and S.H. Chandler. Department of Physiological Science and the Mental Retardation Research Center, University of California at Los Angeles, California 90095. APStracts 3:0112N, 1996.
• Opioids modulate N -methyl- D -aspartic acid (NMDA)-evoked responses of trigeminothalamic neurons. Wang, Xiao-Min and Sukhbir S. Mokha. Department of Physiology, Meharry Medical College, 1005 D.B. Todd Boulevard, Nashville, TN 37208, U.S.A. APStracts 3:0113N, 1996.
• Dendritic Na+ channels amplify EPSPs in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cells. Lipowsky, Rupert, Thomas Gillessen, and Christian Alzheimer. Department of Physiology, University of Munich, Pettenkoferstr. 12, D-80336 Munich, Germany. APStracts 3:0114N, 1996.
• Intracellular QX-314 Inhibits Calcium Currents in Hippocampal CA1 Pyramidal Neurons. Talbot, MattHEW J. and Rod J. Sayer. Department of Physiology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. APStracts 3:0115N, 1996.
• Long-Term Depression of Aplysia Sensorimotor Synapses in Cell Culture: Inductive Role of a Rise in Postsynaptic Calcium. Lin, Xiang Y. and David L. Glanzman. Department of Physiological Science, UCLA, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095, aBrain Research Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1761. APStracts 3:0116N, 1996.
• SEROTONIN POTENTIATES DOPAMINE INHIBITION OF VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA NEURONS IN VITRO. Brodie, Mark S., E. Bradshaw Bunney. Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60612 U.S.A. and Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60612 U.S.A.. APStracts 3:0117N, 1996.
• Neuronal Synchronization of Tonically Active Neurons in the Striatum of Normal and Parkinsonian Primates. Raz, Aeyal, Ariela Feingold, Valentina Zelanskaya, Eilon Vaadia and Hagai Bergman. Department of Physiology and the Center for Neural Computation, The Hebrew University - Hadassah Medical School, P.O.Box 12272, Jerusalem 91120, Israel, E-mail: hagaib@md2.huji.ac.il. APStracts 3:0118N, 1996.
• EFFECTS OF SINGLE PULSE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION OVER THE PREFRONTAL AND POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTICES DURING MEMORY-GUIDED SACCADES IN HUMANS. Muri, Rene M., Anne-Isabelle Vermersch, Sophie Rivaud, Bertrand Gaymard, Charles Pierrot-Deseilligny. Service de Neurologie et INSERM U 289, H[circumflex]opital de la Salp[circumflex]etri[grave]ere, 47 Boulevard de l'H[circumflex]opital, F-75651 Paris CEDEX 13 , France and Department of Neurology, University of Bern, Inselspital, CH-3010 Bern , Switzerland. APStracts 3:0119N, 1996.
• Decreased duration of Ca 2+ -mediated plateau potentials in striatal neurons from aged rats. Dunia, Richard, Galen Buckwalter, Tony DeFazio, Fernando Dos Santos Villar, Thomas H. McNeill and John P. Walsh. Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center, USC Program in Neuroscience, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0191. APStracts 3:0120N, 1996.
• Similarity of granular-induced inhibitory periods in pairs of neighboring mitral / tufted cells. BUONVISO, N., M.A. CHAPUT and F. BERTHOMMIER. Physiologie Neurosensorielle. CNRS - Univ. Lyon 1. 69622 Villeurbanne cedex, France, ICP-INPG. Avenue F[acute]elix Viallet. 38031 Grenoble cedex. APStracts 3:0121N, 1996.
• The Relationship Between Short-Range Stiffness and Yielding in Type- Identified, Chemically Skinned Muscle Fibers from the Cat Triceps Surae Muscles. Malamud, Jean G., Robert E. Godt, T. Richard Nichols. Departments of Physiology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322 and Physiology and Endocrinology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA. APStracts 3:0122N, 1996.
• cyclic AMP-dependent protein Kinase enhances HIPPOCAMPAL DENTATE GRANULE CELL GABA A receptor CURRENTS. Kapur, Jaideep and Robert L. Macdonald. Departments of Neurology* and Physiology, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104-1687, U.S.A.. APStracts 3:0123N, 1996.
• CHANGING DIRECTIONS OF FORTHCOMING ARM MOVEMENTS: NEURONAL ACTIVITY IN THE PRESUPPLEMENTARY AND SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA OF MONKEY CEREBRAL CORTEX. MATSUZAKA, YOSHIYA and JUN TANJI. Department of Physiology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan. APStracts 3:0124N, 1996.
• THE LACTOSERIES CARBOHYDRATE ANTIGEN, Gal[beta]1-4GlcNAc-R, IS EXPRESSED BY A SUBPOPULATION OF CAPSAICIN SENSITIVE RAT SENSORY NEURONS. Del Mar, Lucinda P. and Reese S. Scroggs. University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, 855 Monroe Avenue, Memphis, TN 38163. APStracts 3:0125N, 1996.
• NEURONAL ACTIVITY IN THE CLAUSTRUM OF THE MONKEY DURING PERFORMANCE OF MULTIPLE MOVEMENTS. SHIMA, KEISETSU, EIJI HOSHI AND JUN TANJI. Department of Physiology, Tohoku university School of Medicine, Sendai, 980, Japan. APStracts 3:0126N, 1996.
• VISCERAL NOCICEPTIVE INPUT INTO THE VENTRAL POSTEROLATERAL NUCLEUS OF THE THALAMUS: A NEW FUNCTION FOR THE DORSAL COLUMN PATHWAY. Al-Chaer, Elie D., Nada B. Lawand, Karin N. Westlund and William D. Willis. Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences and Marine Biomedical Institute, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas 77555-1069. APStracts 3:0127N, 1996.
• PELVIC VISCERAL INPUT INTO THE NUCLEUS GRACILIS IS LARGELY MEDIATED BY THE POSTSYNAPTIC DORSAL COLUMN PATHWAY. Al-Chaer, Elie D., Nada B. Lawand, Karin N. Westlund and William D. Willis. Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences and Marine Biomedical Institute, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas 77555-1069. APStracts 3:0128N, 1996.
• Influence of voltage-sensitive dendritic conductances on bistable firing and effective synaptic current in cat spinal motoneurons in vivo. Lee, R.H. and C.J. Heckman. Department of Physiology, Northwestern University Medical School. APStracts 3:0129N, 1996.
• EFFECTS OF RED NUCLEUS INACTIVATION ON BURST DISCHARGE IN TURTLE CEREBELLUM IN VITRO: EVIDENCE FOR POSITIVE FEEDBACK. Keifer, Joyce. Department of Anatomy & Structural Biology, University of South Dakota School of Medicine, Vermillion, SD 57069. APStracts 3:0130N, 1996.
• Dihydropyridine-sensitive, voltage-gated Ca^2+ channels contribute to the resting intracellular Ca^2+ concentration of hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons. Magee, Jeffrey C., Robert B. Avery, Brian R. Christie and Daniel Johnston. Division of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, Texas 77030. APStracts 3:0131N, 1996.
• Forms of Forward Quadrupedal Locomotion I. A Comparison of Posture, Hindlimb Kinematics, and Motor Patterns for Normal and Crouched Walking. Trank, Tamara V., CheunJu Chen, and Judith L. Smith. Laboratory of Neuromotor Control, Department of Physiological Science and the Brain Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, California, 90095-1568. APStracts 3:0132N, 1996.
• ENVELOPE CODING IN THE LATERAL SUPERIOR OLIVE II. CHARACTERISTIC DELAYS AND COMPARISON WITH RESPONSES IN THE MEDIAL SUPERIOR OLIVE. Joris, Philip X. Department of Neurophysiology, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, Wisconsin 53706. APStracts 3:0133N, 1996.
• SPONTANEOUS AND STIMULATION-INDUCED SYNCHRONIZED BURST AFTERDISCHARGES IN THE ISOLATED CA1 OF KAINATE-TREATED RATS. Meier, C. L., F. E. Dudek. Mental Retardation Research Center, UCLA School of Medicine, 960 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles CA 90024, U.S.A. APStracts 3:0134N, 1996.