Article: Early exposure to alcohol leads to permanent impairment of dendritic excitability in neocortical pyramidal neurons.
Full Text (publisher's website) ; Article Metadata ; Article Data (extracted) Granato A; Palmer LM; De Giorgio A; Tavian D; Larkum ME J. Neurosci., 2012
Table 1.
Main electrophysiological properties of layer 5 pyramidal neurons
Control | Ethanol | F(1,10) | p | |
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Number of animals | 7 | 5 | ||
Number of neurons | 19 | 19 | ||
Resting membrane potential (mV) | −72.69 ± 1.01 | −73.67 ± 1.77 | 0.02 | 0.905 |
Input resistance (MΩ) | 23.31 ± 1.79 | 22.54 ± 1.10 | 0.00 | 0.964 |
Membrane time constant (ms) | 11.43 ± 0.84 | 13.12 ± 1.17 | 0.53 | 0.482 |
Rheobase (pA) | 726.32 ± 43.15 | 705.26 ± 42.90 | 0.46 | 0.512 |
Absolute threshold (mV) | −42.56 ± 0.82 | −41.78 ± 1.28 | 0.02 | 0.892 |
Spike amplitude (mV) | 87.46 ± 0.75 | 87.15 ± 0.91 | 0.09 | 0.775 |
Spike half-width (ms) | 0.63 ± 0.02 | 0.72 ± 0.04 | 0.50 | 0.496 |
Fast AHP (mV) | −7.77 ± 0.43 | −7.27 ± 0.71 | 0.09 | 0.772 |
Slow AHP (mV) | −12.86 ± 0.56 | −11.25 ± 0.54 | 1.96 | 0.192 |
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Subthreshold and suprathreshold properties of Co and Et layer 5 pyramidal neurons, as observed after injection of 1 s steps of current at soma. AHP, Afterhyperpolarization.