viernes, 23 de enero de 2009

News From The Journal Of Neuroscience Part 2



3. Calcium Imaging Reveals Different Computational Strategies bordered by Crickets Hiroto Ogawa, Graham I. Cummins, Gwen A. Jacobs, and Kotaro Oka Crickets fritter air lower class to detect and obtain out predators. All facts just about interlock direction be process via two pairs of interneurons (INs), IN 10-2 and 10-3. The dendrites of these four interneurons unify input from several mechanosensory afferents, and their success is directionally tune. Ogawa et al. once owned concurrent presynaptic and postsynaptic calcium imaging to look into how afferent inputs to incompatible dendritic branches of these interneurons be integrated to let off the directionally tuned riposte. They found that IN 10-2 and 10-3 integrated inputs differently, faithfully in the red to difference in dendritic morphology. The directional tuning of all dendrite in IN 10-3 matched that of its presynaptic input, but not of the other dendrites, suggesting that each dendrite acted by medium of a loosen computational component. In evaluation, the directional tuning be alike across IN 10-2 dendrites (each was different from its inputs), suggesting that the dendrites acted as a rare computational unit.


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