Glass microelectrode recordings were made from single fibres of the posterior ampullary nerve in the isolated labyrinth of the frog (Rana esculenta). Potentials were recorded both at rest and during rotatory stimulation of the canal. At rest, the tracings revealed an intense background of small, largely summated potentials (0.5-10 mV amplitude, 3-6 msec duration), which underlay the discharge of spikes in all the impaled units. The frequency of the subthreshold events was related to the frequency of the propagated spikes, the latter ranging from 0 to 40/sec. Stimulation modulated the frequency of both spikes and subthreshold potentials, whose summation during excitation led to a positive shift of the fibre membrane potential. The small potentials proved to be dependent on Ca2+ and Mg2+ levels in the bath. Antidromic-stimulation of the posterior ampullary nerve indicated that the observed events do not represent an artifact due to extracellular field interference related to spike activity in the neighbouring fibres. Tetrodotoxin (10(-7)-10(-6) g/ml) applied externally to the preparation or previously perfused through the frog vessels abolishes the propagated spikes but left unaffected the small potentials which, even under drug treatment, were normally modulated by the stimulus. The subthreshold potentials thus appear to be EPSPs generated at the cyto-neural junction between the hair cells and the endings of the ampullary nerve fibres.

Post-synaptic potentials recorded from afferent nerve fibres of the posterior semicircular canal in the frog.

ROSSI, Marialisa;
1977

Abstract

Glass microelectrode recordings were made from single fibres of the posterior ampullary nerve in the isolated labyrinth of the frog (Rana esculenta). Potentials were recorded both at rest and during rotatory stimulation of the canal. At rest, the tracings revealed an intense background of small, largely summated potentials (0.5-10 mV amplitude, 3-6 msec duration), which underlay the discharge of spikes in all the impaled units. The frequency of the subthreshold events was related to the frequency of the propagated spikes, the latter ranging from 0 to 40/sec. Stimulation modulated the frequency of both spikes and subthreshold potentials, whose summation during excitation led to a positive shift of the fibre membrane potential. The small potentials proved to be dependent on Ca2+ and Mg2+ levels in the bath. Antidromic-stimulation of the posterior ampullary nerve indicated that the observed events do not represent an artifact due to extracellular field interference related to spike activity in the neighbouring fibres. Tetrodotoxin (10(-7)-10(-6) g/ml) applied externally to the preparation or previously perfused through the frog vessels abolishes the propagated spikes but left unaffected the small potentials which, even under drug treatment, were normally modulated by the stimulus. The subthreshold potentials thus appear to be EPSPs generated at the cyto-neural junction between the hair cells and the endings of the ampullary nerve fibres.
1977
Rossi, Marialisa; Valli, P.; Casella, C.
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