APStracts (ISSN 1080-4757) Vol. 5, 1998

The American Physiological Society

• Dopamine Modulates Two Potassium Currents and Inhibits the Intrinsic Firing Properties of an Identified Motoneuron in a Central Pattern Generator Network Peter Kloppenburg, Robert M. Levini, and Ronald M. Harris-Warrick Section Neurobiology and Behavior, Seeley G. Mudd Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA APStracts 5:137N, 1998
• Activation of Distinct Motor Cortex Regions During Ipsilateral and Contralateral Finger Movements Steven C. Cramer, 1,2,3, Seth P. Finklestein, 1, Judith D. Schaechter, MSPT4, George Bush2,3, Bruce R. Rosen, 2 1 Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA., 2 The MGH-NMR Center, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, 3 The Clinical Investigator Training Program, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center in collaboration with Pfizer Inc., 4Department of Physical Therapy, Bouve College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA APStracts 5:138N, 1998
• A three independent compartment chamber to study in vitro commissural synapses Roustem KHAZIPOV, Luc DESFRERES, Ilgam KHALILOV* and Yehezkel BEN-ARI1 Centre de Recherches sur l_Epilepsie et l_Isch‚mie C‚r‚brale, INSERM U29, 123 Bd de Port -Royal, Paris 75674, France APStracts 5:139N, 1998
• DEVELOPMENTAL CHANGES IN THE NICOTINIC RESPONSES OF CILIARY GANGLION NEURONS Edward M. Blumenthal*, Richard D. Shoop, and Darwin K. Berg Department of Biology, 0357 University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 APStracts 5:140N, 1998
• A relative energy failure is associated with low-Mg2+ but not with 4- aminopyridine induced seizure-like events in entorhinal cortex S. Schuchmann1*, K. Buchheim2, H. Meierkord2 and U. Heinemann1 1 Institut fŸr Neurophysiologie, 2 Neurologische Klinik und Poliklinik; UniversitŠtsklinikum CharitŽ; Humboldt-UniversitŠt Berlin APStracts 5:141N, 1998
• Neuromodulation of Dendritic Action Potentials Dax A. Hoffman and Daniel Johnston Division of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston TX, 77030 APStracts 5:142N, 1998
• CURRENT-SOURCE DENSITY ANALYSIS IN THE RAT OLFACTORY BULB: LAMINAR DISTRIBUTION OF KAINATE/AMPA AND NMDA RECEPTOR-MEDIATED CURRENTS Vassiliki Aroniadou-Anderjaska, Mathew Ennis, and Michael T. Shipley Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology and Program in Neuroscience, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21201. APStracts 5:143N, 1998
• IONIC MECHANISMS OF ACTION OF NEUROTENSIN IN ACUTELY DISSOCIATED NEURONS FROM THE HORIZONTAL LIMB OF THE DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA OF THE RAT. Balvinder S. Jassar; Kim H. Harris, Paula M. Ostashewski and Jack H. Jhamandas Department of Medicine (Neurology) and Division of Neuroscience, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2B7 APStracts 5:144N, 1998
• Step-tracking Movements of the Wrist. IV. Muscle Activity Associated with Movements in Different Directions
  Donna S. Hoffman1,3 and Peter L. Strick1,2,3
  1Research Service (151S), V.A. Medical Center, Departments of 2Neurosurgery and 3Neuroscience & Physiology, SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse, Syracuse, NY 13210 APStracts 5:145N, 1998
• Focal epileptogenesis in a rat model of polymicrogyria
  Kimberle M. Jacobs, Bryan J. Hwang, and David A. Prince
  Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA 94305 APStracts 5:146N, 1998
• Modulation of Transmitter Release by Action Potential Duration at the hippocampal CA3-CA1 synapse
  Jing Qian and Peter Saggau
  Division of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030 APStracts 5:147N, 1998
• Voltage-activated K+ currents of hypoglossal motoneurons in a brainstem slice preparation from the neonatal rat
  Remigijus Lape and Andrea Nistri
  Biophysics Sector and INFM Unit, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Via Beirut 4, 34013 Trieste, Italy APStracts 5:148N, 1998
• Zinc and Flunitrazepam Modulation of GABA-Mediated Currents in Rat Suprachiasmatic Neurons
  G.J. Strecker, W.K. Park1, and F.E. Dudek2
  Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1670 USA APStracts 5:149N, 1998
• C-FIBER DEPLETION ALTERS RESPONSE PROPERTIES OF NEURONS IN TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS PRINCIPALIS
  C.L. KWAN1, J.A. DEMARO2, J.W. HU1, M.F. JACQUIN2 AND B.J. SESSLE1
  1. Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto, 124 Edward Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5G 1G6 2. Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 S. Euclid Street, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A., 63110 APStracts 5:150N, 1998
• Central autonomic activation by intracisternal TRH analog excites gastric splanchnic afferent neurons
  David W. Adelson, Jen Yu Wei, Mahrokh Yashar, T.J. O-Lee and Yvette Tach
  CURE: Digestive Diseases Research Center, West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Medicine, and Brain Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90073 APStracts 5:151N, 1998
• Oculomotor control of primary eye position discriminates between translation and tilt
  Bernhard J.M. Hess and Dora E. Angelaki
  Dept. of Neurology, University Hospital Zrich, CH-8091, Switzerland, Dept of Surgery (Otolaryngology), University of MS Medical Center, Jackson MS APStracts 5:152N, 1998