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Acute experiments on immobilized cats lightly anesthetized with pentobarbital showed that application of strychine to the cortical surface inhibits slow negative potentials arising during direct and primary responses of the sensomotor cortex and corresponding IPSPs in pyramidal neurons. Iontophoretic applications of strychine blocks predominantly the early component of the IPSP, during which the input resistance under normal conditions is significantly less than during the late component of the IPSP, indicating that these components differ in their genesis. It is concluded that individual components of cortical evoked potentials have a common genesis, and that the slow negative potential is the dipole reflection of the IPSP in pyramidal neurons; the early component of the IPSP, moreover, is generated as a result of activation of axo-somatic inhibitory synapses, whereas the late component is generated as a result of activation of axo-dendritic synapses. The mediators in these inhibitory synapses may be different.
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I. S. Beritashvili Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR, Tbilisi. Translated from Neirofiziologiya, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 480–487, July–August, 1984.
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Kokaya, M.G., Labakhua, T.S. & Okudzhava, V.M. Action of strychine on evoked potentials and postsynaptic responses of cat sensomotor cortical neurons. Neurophysiology 16, 378–385 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01053492
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