User:Dan Hartline/In Progress/Plateau Potentials article

Dan Hartline's drafts for Plateau_potentials

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=Plateau Potentials=  Plateaus are present in a large number of nerve-cell types, both vertebrate and invertebrate. They can endow a nerve cell ("neuron") with a highly non-linear response to synaptic input from other neurons. They can cause a neuron to switch from silence to high-frequency firing of nerve impulses and back again with often only modest synaptic input

Vertebrate

 * Cortical neurons


 * Respiratory (pre-Boettinger) neurons [need better one]


 * Lamprey spinal neurons (Grillner) need ref


 * need refs for turtle sp. cord

Invertebrate

 * Mantis shrimp cardiac ganglion (Watnabe et al 1967) need ref


 * Crustacean stomatogastric ganglion neurons


 * Locust flight interneurons