title: Spontaneous inhibitory postsynaptic potentials in guinea pig neocortex and olfactory cortex neurones.
abstract: The membrane potential of olfactory cortex and neocortex neurones in vitro was recorded using conventional microelectrode techniques. During recordings with KCl- or CsCl-filled microelectrodes, spontaneous, subthreshold, transient membrane depolarizations were observed. These were abolished by the GABAA-receptor antagonist, bicuculline methiodide, and were prolonged by the barbiturate pentobarbitone. In most cells they were abolished by tetrodotoxin. It is concluded that these spontaneous depolarizations are inhibitory postsynaptic potentials arising from spontaneous activity in inhibitory interneurones.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Galvan
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Franz
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Constanti
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001640:Bicuculline / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000494:pharmacology; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D006168:Guinea Pigs; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008032:Limbic System / Q000502:physiology*; D008564:Membrane Potentials; D009433:Neural Inhibition; D012964:Sodium / Q000502:physiology; D009435:Synaptic Transmission; D013779:Tetrodotoxin / Q000494:pharmacology; D005680:gamma-Aminobutyric Acid / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: C017069:bicuculline methiodide; D013779:Tetrodotoxin; D005680:gamma-Aminobutyric Acid; D012964:Sodium; D001640:Bicuculline