Correlation between activity in neuron B52 and two features of fictive feeding in Aplysia. Academic Article

abstract

• The present study examined the correlation between the level of activity neuron B52 and the transition from protraction to retraction phases of buccal motor patterns (BMPs) and the termination of the BMPs. The level of activity in B52 during the protraction phase was positively correlated with the duration of that phase. A second burst of activity in B52 was associated with the termination of the retraction phase. An apparent monosynaptic inhibitory connection from B52 to B64, may mediate the effects of B52. The first burst of activity in B52 delays the onset of activity in B64, thereby prolonging the protraction phase, and the second burst inhibits activity in B64, thereby terminating the retraction phase. These results suggest that activity in B52 may contribute to switching between ingestion-like and rejection-like BMPs by regulating both phase transition and termination of BMPs.

authors

• Baxter, Douglas

published proceedings

• Neurosci Lett

author list (cited authors)

• Nargeot, R., Baxter, D. A., & Byrne, J. H.

citation count

• 13

complete list of authors

• Nargeot, Romuald||Baxter, Douglas A||Byrne, John H

publication date

• January 2002

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS  Journal

keywords

• Action Potentials
• Animals
• Aplysia
• Biological Clocks
• Central Nervous System
• Feeding Behavior
• Ganglia, Invertebrate
• Mouth
• Nerve Net
• Neural Inhibition
• Neural Pathways
• Neurons
• Periodicity
• Synaptic Transmission

PubMed Central ID

• 12133561

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/s0304-3940(02)00468-8

start page

• 85

end page

• 88

volume

• 328

issue

• 2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0304-3940(02)00468-8