Rat hippocampal CA1 neurons in the external role of afferent signals coding.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 3 Rat hippocampal CA1 neurons in the external role of afferent signals coding Author: Wang Hai-Mei Chen Jingfang Qi-Sheng Hu Hu Shengdi [Keywords:] Rat Abstract: peripheral electrical stimulation of the sciatic nerve from a single neuron extracellular recording method to observe changes in rat hippocampal CA1 neurons to peripheral electrical stimulation of the role of signal coding. The results showed that multi-string electric stimulation, the rat hippocampal CA1 neurons in a marked increase in the number of bursts, and the number of action potentials is greater than 3 the number of bursts increased significantly. Experimental results show that rat hippocampal CA1 neurons in the peripheral role of the incoming signal with the coding involved in the modulation of the signal. Keywords:: rat; hippocampus; bursts Understand the neuronal encoding of information is one of the most basic neuroscience. Neuronal electrical activity of the nervous system, internal and external environmental information transmission and encoding a basic method, bio-electrical signals transmitted mainly through the nerve fibers and synapses between the action potential conduction of electricity, chemical delivery to achieve. Neurons coding methods are frequency-coded, group code, time encoding and pattern coding [1]. It has been reported another new neurons encoding - short bursts that the exchange of signals between neurons through short bursts [2]. Bursting-firing neurons can be used as the information carrying units has been clearly supported a number of experiments also proved that in different brain areas such as visual cortex, hippocampus, bursts of information coding and transmission plays an important role [3]. Hippocampus belongs to the limbic system, and learning and memory, emotional behavior and the closely related seizures, hippocampal pyramidal neurons in the encoding and transmission of information of great significance. This study preliminary stud