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Studies on slices of the parietal cortex of the guinea-pig brain showed that a change in temperature from 20°C to 36°C led to increases in responses to microintophoretic application of acetylcholine to individual nerve cells. The greatest changes occurred over two temperature ranges: 27–29°C and 34–36°C. Increases in the cholinergic response were accompanied by increases in the spontaneous activity of the neurons.
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Translated from Rossiiskii Fiziologicheskii Zhurnal imeni I. M. Sechenova, Vol. 90, No. 2, pp, 193–201, February, 2004.
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Mednikova, Y.S., Pasikova, N.V. The Temperature Sensitivity of the Cholinergic Responses of Cortical Neurons in the Guinea Pig Brain. Neurosci Behav Physiol 35, 615–621 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11055-005-0101-6
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