APStracts (ISSN 1080-4757) Vol. 4, 1997

The American Physiological Society

• Human Gaze Stabilization During Natural Activities: Translation, Rotation, Magnification, and Target Distance Effects. Benjamin T. Crane and Joseph L. Demer Departments of Ophthalmology and Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. 90095-7002. APStracts 4:0082N, 1997.
• EXCITATORY AND INHIBITORY INPUTS FROM SACCULAR AFFERENTS TO SINGLE VESTIBULAR NEURONS IN THE CAT Y. UCHINO, H. SATO and H. SUWA Department of Physiology, Tokyo Medical College 6-1-1 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160, Japan. APStracts 4:0083N, 1997.
• DIFFERENTIAL IMPACT OF MINIATURE SYNAPTIC POTENTIALS ON THE SOMA AND DENDRITES OF PYRAMIDAL NEURONS IN VIVO Denis ParŽ, Elen LeBel and Eric J. Lang DŽpartement de Physiologie, FacultŽ de MŽdecine, UniversitŽ Laval, QuŽbec, (QUE), CANADA, G1K 7P4 Department of Physiology and Neuroscience, New York University Medical Center, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA APStracts 4:0084N, 1997.
• Activity-Dependent Potentiation Of Synaptic Transmission From L30 Inhibitory Interneurons Of Aplysia Depends Upon Residual Presynaptic Calcium But Not On Postsynaptic Calcium Thomas M. Fischer, Robert S. Zucker, and Thomas J. Carew Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 APStracts 4:0085N, 1997.
• Passive and active membrane properties of isolated rat intracardiac neurons: regulation by H- and M-currents J. Cuevas, A.A. Harper, C. Trequattrini and D.J. Adams Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33101, USA and Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia APStracts 4:0086N, 1997.
• CELLULAR MECHANISMS UNDERLYING SPONTANEOUS FIRING IN RAT SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS: INVOLVEMENT OF A SLOWLY INACTIVATING COMPONENT OF SODIUM CURRENT C. M. A. Pennartz, M. A. Bierlaagh and A. M. S. Geurtsen Graduate School Neurosciences Amsterdam, Netherlands Institute for Brain Research, Meibergdreef 33, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands APStracts 4:0087N, 1997.
• NMDA INDEPENDENT LTP BY ADENOSINE A2 RECEPTOR-MEDIATED POSTSYNAPTIC AMPA POTENTIATION IN HIPPOCAMPUS Kofi Kessey and David J. Mogul Neurobiology & Physiology and Biomedical Engineering Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208 USA APStracts 4:0088N, 1997.
• Two conductances mediate thyrotropin releasing hormone-induced depolarization of neonatal rat spinal preganglionic and lateral horn neurons Miloslav Kolaj, Susan J. Shefchyk1 and Leo P. Renaud Neuroscience, Loeb Research Institute, Ottawa Civic Hospital and University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA K1Y 4E9, 1Department of Physiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, CANADA R3E 3J7 APStracts 4:0089N, 1997.
• TWO TYPES OF ACTIONS OF NORADRENALINE ON IDENTIFIED AUDITORY EFFERENT NEURONS IN RAT BRAINSTEM SLICES Xueyong Wang AND Donald Robertson The Auditory Laboratory, Department of Physiology, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6907 AUSTRALIA APStracts 4:0090N, 1997.
• Dynamics of Squirrel Monkey Linear Vestibuloocular Reflex and Interactions with Fixation Distance Laura Telford, Scott H. Seidman, and Gary D. Paige Department of Neurology and Center for Visual Science University of Rochester, Rochester, New York APStracts 4:091N, 1997.
• Relationship Between Sensory Stimuli-Elicited IPSPs in Motoneurons and PGO Waves During Muscle Atonia Induced by Carbachol Injection into the Nucleus Pontis Oralis Kristi A. Kohlmeier, Faustino L—pez-Rodr’guez, Francisco R. Morales and Michael H. Chase Department of Physiology, and the Brain Research Institute, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, Ca 90095 APStracts 4:0092N, 1997.
• A calcium-activated cation nonselective current contributes to the fast afterdepolarization in rat prefrontal cortex neurons Samir Haj-Dahmane and Rodrigo Andrade Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences and Cellular and Clinical Neurobiology Training Program Wayne State University School of Medicine 540 E Canfield St. Detroit, MI 48201 USA APStracts 4:0093N, 1997.
• Ca2+ Current in Rabbit Carotid Body Glomus Cells is Conducted by Multiple Types of High Voltage-Activated Ca2+ Channels Jeffrey L. Overholt and Nanduri R. Prabhakar Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH 44106-4970, Telephone (216) 368-8962 Fax: (216) 368-1693, APStracts 4:0094N, 1997.
• Different Sensitivities to pH of ATP-Induced Currents at Four Cloned P2X Receptors RON STOOP, ANNMARIE SURPRENANT, AND R. ALAN NORTH Geneva Biomedical Research Institute, Glaxo Wellcome Research and Development, Plan-les-Ouates, 1228 Geneva, Switzerland APStracts 4:0095N, 1997.
• The Impulse Encoding Mechanisms of Ganglion Cells in the Tiger Salamander Retina. J.F. Fohlmeister and R.F. Miller. Department of Physiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455. APStracts 4:0096N, 1997.
• The Mechanisms by which cell geometry controls repetitive impulse firing in Retinal Ganglion Cells. Fohlmeister, J.F. and Miller, R.F. Physiology Department, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455. APStracts 4:0097N, 1997.
• Object Representation in the Ventral Premotor Cortex (area F5) of the Monkey. Akira Murata, Luciano Fadiga, Leonardo Fogassi, Vittorio Gallese, Vassilis Raos1 and Giacomo Rizzolatti1.. Istituto di Fisiologia Umana, Universit_ di Parma, Via Gramsci 14, 43100 Parma, Italy; First Department of Physiology, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo 173, Japan.. APStracts 4:098N, 1997.
• The fast, slow and steady state effects of contralateral acoustic activation of the medial olivocochlear efferent system in awake guinea pigs. action of gentamicin. Deise Lima da Costa, Anne CHIBOIS, Jean-Paul Erre, Christophe Blanchet, Renaud Charlet de Sauvage, Jean-Marie Aran. Laboratoire d'Audiologie Exp‚rimentale et Clinique, UPR-ES Universit‚ de Bordeaux II, H“pital Pellegrin, 33076 - Bordeaux (France). APStracts 4:0099N, 1997.
• The Ionic Selectivity of Mechanically-Activated Channels in Spider Mechanoreceptor Neurons. ULLI H™GER, PŽIVI H. TORKKELI, ERNST-AUGUST SEYFARTH AND ANDREW S. FRENCH. Zoologisches Institut, J.W. Goethe-Universit„t, D-60054 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4H7, CanadaZoologisches Institut, J.W. Goethe- Universit„t, D-60054 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4H7, Canada. APStracts 4:0100N, 1997.
• Intravenous morphine increases the release of nitric oxide from spinal cord by an ŕ-adrenergic and cholinergic mechanism. Zemin Xu, Chuanyao Tong, Hui-Lin Pan, Sergio E. Cerda, James C. Eisenach. Department of Anesthesia, Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, 27157-1009. APStracts 4:0101N, 1997.
• GABAA receptor-mediated rebound burst firing and burst shunting in thalamus. Daniel Ulrich and John R. Huguenard. Stanford University School of Medicine. Stanford CA 94305. U.S.A. APStracts 4:01027N, 1997.
• Cholecystokinin Activates CCKB-Receptor Mediated Ca-Signaling in HippocampalAstrocytes Wolfgang Mźller, Uwe Heinemann, and Karin Berlin Institut fźr Physiologie der CharitŽ, Abt. Neurophysiologie AG Molekulare Zellphysiologie, Tucholskystr. 2, D-10117 Berlin, Germany. APStracts 4:0103N, 1997.
• In Vitro Plasticity of the Direct Feedback Pathway in the Electrosensory System of Apteronotus leptorhynchus Daliang Wang and Leonard Maler Department of Cellular and Molecular Medecine, University of Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario, Canada APStracts 4:0104N, 1997.
• Ion transport and membrane potential in CNS myelinated axons. I: normoxic conditions Lisa Leppanen and Peter K. Stys Loeb Research Institute, Ottawa Civic Hospital, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON Canada K1Y 4E9 APStracts 4:105N, 1997.
• Ion transport and membrane potential in CNS myelinated axons. II: effects of metabolic inhibition Lisa Leppanen and Peter K. Stys Loeb Research Institute, Ottawa Civic Hospital, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON Canada K1Y 4E9 APStracts 4:106N, 1997.
• Axotomy Increases the Excitability of Dorsal Root Ganglion Cells with Unmyelinated Axons Jun-Ming Zhang, David F. Donnelly, Xue-Jun Song, Robert H. LaMotte Department of Anesthesiology and Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520 APStracts 4:107N, 1997.
• RECEPTIVE FIELD EXPANSION AND FUNCTIONAL CHANGES OF NEURONS IN THE VENTROPOSTEROLATERAL THALAMIC NUCLEUS DURING SPINAL STRYCHNINE-INDUCED ALLODYNIA IN THE URETHANE-ANESTHETIZED RAT Stephen E. Sherman, Lei Luo, and Jonathan O. Dostrovsky Department of Physiology, Medical Sciences Building, University of Toronto, Toronto Ontario, Canada, M5S 1A8, Astra Pain Control AB, Preclinical R&D, Novum Unit, S-141 57, Huddinge, Sweden APStracts 4:108N, 1997.
• Metabotropic glutamate receptor enhancement of spontaneous IPSCs in neocortical interneurons Fu-Ming Zhou and John J. Hablitz Department of Neurobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA APStracts 4:109N, 1997.
• Attenuation of Preparatory Activity for Reaching Movements by a D1-Dopamine Antagonist in the Monkey Premotor Cortex T. SAWAGUCHI Department of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Inuyama, Aichi 484, Japan APStracts 4:110N, 1997.
• M4 MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR ACTIVATION MODULATES CALCIUM CHANNEL CURRENTS IN RAT INTRACARDIAC NEURONS J. CUEVAS and D.J. ADAMS Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33101 USA and Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072 Australia. Present address: Department of Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA APStracts 4:111N, 1997.
• Excitatory Amino Acid Receptors at a Feedback Pathway in the Electrosensory System: Implications for the Searchlight Hypothesis Neil J. Berman, James Plant, Ray W. Turner and Leonard Maler Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario K1H 8M5, Canada, Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, PO Box 3050, Victoria, B.C., Dept. of Anatomy, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta APStracts 4:112N, 1997.
• Activity Linked to Externally Cued Saccades in Single Units Recorded from Hippocampal, Parahippocampal and Inferotemporal Areas of Macaques Stanislaw Sobotka, Anna Nowicka, and James L. Ringo Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Rochester Medical Center Rochester, NY, 14642, USA, Department of Neurophysiology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland APStracts 4:113N, 1997.
• Eye Movement Deficits Following Ibotenic Acid Lesions of the Nucleus Prepositus Hypoglossi in Monkeys. I. Saccades and Fixation Chris R. S. Kaneko Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Regional Primate Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195 APStracts 4:114N, 1997.
• Analysis of EPSCs and IPSCs carrying rhythmic, locomotor related information in the isolated spinal cord of the neonatal rat. Morten Raastad, Bruce R. Johnson and Ole Kiehn. Section of Neurophysiology, Department of Physiology, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3, 2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark and Section of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Seeley Mudd Hall, Ithaca 14853, NY, USA. APStracts 4:0115N, 1997.
• Spontaneous Excitatory Currents and Kappa Opioid Receptor Inhibition in Dentate Gyrus are Increased in the Rat Pilocarpine Model of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. Michele L. Simmons, Gregory W. Terman and Charles Chavkin. Departments of Pharmacology and Anesthesiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7280. APStracts 4:0116N, 1997.
• Active Dendrites Reduce Location-Dependent Variability of Synaptic Input Trains Erik P. Cook and Daniel Johnston Division of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, Texas 77030 APStracts 4:117N, 1997.
• THREE KINETICALLY DISTINCT CA++-INDEPENDENT DEPOLARIZATION-ACTIVATED K+CURRENTS IN CALLOSAL-PROJECTING RAT VISUAL CORTICAL NEURONS Rachel E. Locke and Jeanne M. Nerbonne From. APStracts 4:118N, 1997.
• ROLE OF VOLTAGE-GATED K+ CURRENTS IN MEDIATING THE REGULAR SPIKING PHENOTYPE OF CALLOSAL-PROJECTING RAT VISUAL CORTICAL NEURONS Rachel E. Locke and Jeanne M. Nerbonne Department of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110 USA APStracts 4:119N, 1997.
• GABAA-mediated local synaptic pathways connect neurons in the rat suprachiasmatic nucleus George J. Strecker, Jean-Pierre Wuarin, and F. Edward Dudek Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 1670, USA APStracts 4:120N, 1997.
• Independent coding of wind direction in the cockroach giant interneurons Adi Mizrahi and Frederic Libersat Zlotowski Center for Neurosciences and Department of Life Sciences, Ben- Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel, 84105 APStracts 4:121N, 1997.
• Receptive properties of embryonic chick sensory neurons innervating skin Martin Koltzenburg and Gary R. Lewin. Department of Neurology, University of Wrzburg, D-97080 Wrzburg, Dept.of Neurobiochemistry, Max-Planck-Institute for Psychiatry, D 82152, Planegg- Martinsried, Germany. APStracts 4:122N, 1997.
• PARABRACHIAL NEURAL CODING OF TASTE STIMULI IN AWAKE RATS. HISAO NISHIJO AND RALPH NORGREN. Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Toyama 930-01, Japan and Department of Behavioral Science, College of Medicine, The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA 17033, U.S.A. APStracts 4:123N, 1997.
• The GABA Receptors of Bipolar Cells from the Skate Retina: The Actions of Zinc on GABA-mediated Membrane Currents Haohua Qian, Lihong Li, Richard L. Chappell, and Harris Ripps. The Marine Biological Laboratories, Woods Hole, MA, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60612, and the 4Department of Biological Sciences, Hunter College and Graduate School, CUNY, New York, NY 10021. APStracts 4:124N, 1997.
• An Analysis of Primate Inhibitory Burst Neuron Spike Trains using System Identification Techniques: Relationship to Eye Movement Dynamics during Head- Fixed Saccades. Kathleen E. Cullen and Daniel Guitton. Aerospace Medical Research Unit and the Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1Y6, Canada. APStracts 4:125N, 1997.
• RESPONSE SENSITIVITY AND VOLTAGE GAIN OF THE ROD- AND CONE-BIPOLAR CELL SYNAPSES IN DARK-ADAPTED TIGER SALAMANDER RETINA. Xiong-Li Yang and Samuel M. Wu. Cullen Eye Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030. APStracts 4:126N, 1997.
• Hyperpolarization-Activated Inward Current in Neurons of the Rat's Dorsal Nucleus of the Lateral Lemniscus in Vitro. Xiao Wen Fu, Borys L. Brezden and Shu Hui Wu. Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience, Institute of Neuroscience, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6, Canada. APStracts 4:127N, 1997.
• First-spike timing of auditory-nerve fibers and comparison with auditory cortex. Peter Heil and Dexter R.F. Irvine. Department of Psychology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia. APStracts 4:128N, 1997.
• Object Representation in the Ventral Premotor Cortex (area F5) of the Monkey. Akira Murata, Luciano Fadiga, Leonardo Fogassi, Vittorio Gallese, Vassilis Raos1 and Giacomo Rizzolatti1.. Istituto di Fisiologia Umana, Universit_ di Parma, Via Gramsci 14, 43100 Parma, Italy; First Department of Physiology, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo 173, Japan.. APStracts 4:129N, 1997.
• INHIBITORY EFFECTS OF ARACHIDONIC ACID ON NICOTINIC TRANSMISSION IN BULLFROG SYMPATHETIC NEURONS. SHOICHI MINOTA and SADAHIRO WATANABE. Division of Basic Medical Science, Kobe City College of Nursing, Nishi-ku, Kobe 651-21, Japan APStracts 4:130N, 1997.
• Electrical Properties of the Cockroach Fast Coxal Depressor Motoneuron Soma Depend upon the Different Characteristics of Individual Calcium Components. JANETTE D. MILLS AND ROBERT M. PITMAN. School of Biological and Medical Sciences, Gatty Marine Laboratory, University of St. Andrews, Fife KY16 8LB, United Kingdom. APStracts 4:131N, 1997.
• INNERVATION TERRITORIES OF MECHANO-RESPONSIVE C NOCICEPTOR UNITS IN HUMAN SKIN ROLAND SCHMIDT, MARTIN SCHMELZ, MATTHIAS RINGKAMP, HERMANN O. HANDWERKER and H. ERIK TOREBJRK Departments of Clinical Neurophysiology, University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden1 and Physiology and Experimental Pathophysiology, University of Erlangen/Nrnberg, Germany APStracts 4:132N, 1997.
• MECHANISMS OF POTENTIATION BY CALCIUM-CALMODULIN KINASE II OF POSTSYNAPTIC SENSITIVITY IN RAT HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 NEURONS Aneil M. Shirke, and Roberto Malinow. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, and Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 APStracts 4:133N, 1997.