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The effect of intracellular iontophoretic injection of cyclic AMP on electrical activity of neurons RPa1, RPa3, LPa2, LPa3, and LPl1 in the corresponding ganglia ofHelix pomatia was investigated. Injection of cyclic AMP into neuron LPl1 was found to cause the appearance of rhythmic activity (if the neuron was originally "silent"), an increase in the frequency of spike generation (if the neuron had rhythmic activity), and a decrease in amplitude of waves of membrane potential, in the duration of the interval between bursts, and in the number of action potentials in the burst (if the neuron demonstrated bursting activity). In the remaining "silent" neurons injection of cyclic AMP led to membrane depolarization. Injection of cyclic AMP into neurons whose membrane potential was clamped at the resting potential level evoked the development of an inward transmembrane current (cyclic AMP current), the rate of rise and duration of which increased proportionally to the size and duration of the injection. Theophylline in a concentration of 1 mM led to an increase in the amplitude and duration of the cyclic AMP current by about 50%. It is concluded that a change in the cyclic AMP concentration within the nerve cell may modify the ionic permeability of its membrane and, correspondingly, its electrical activity.
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A. A. Bogomolets Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Kiev. Translated from Neirofiziologiya, Vol. 12, No. 5, pp. 517–525, September–October, 1980.
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Kononenko, N.I., Mironov, S.L. Effect of intracellular injection of cyclic amp on electrical characteristics of identified neurons in Helix pomatia. Neurophysiology 12, 332–338 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01066080
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