Neuronal properties underlying processing of visual information in the barnacle.
Generation of a transient, amplified response to the dimming of light in the visual system of the barnacle involves two synaptic stages. It is accomplished primarily by decrementally conducting neurones that are similar to bipolar cells of the vertebrate retina.
D000200:Action Potentials; D000818:Animals; D005724:Ganglia / Q000502:physiology; D008027:Light; D008564:Membrane Potentials; D009431:Neural Conduction; D010786:Photoreceptor Cells / Q000502:physiology*; D013570:Synaptic Membranes / Q000502:physiology; D009435:Synaptic Transmission; D001468:Thoracica / Q000502:physiology*; D014795:Visual Pathways / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology