Optical recording and information theoretic analysis of Aplysia gill-withdrawal reflex.
A new experimental setup has been devised to perform Aplysia optical recording, the firing of the siphon sensory neurons being precisely controlled. Significant crosscorrelations between the siphon sensory neurons and optically detected neurons were obtained by our information theory-based analysis, and we discussed possible roles of the detected neurons in the gill-withdrawal reflex.
Shiono
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Central Research Laboratories, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Hyogo, Japan.
Nakashima
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Yamada
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Matsumoto
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D000200:Action Potentials / Q000502:physiology; D000818:Animals; D001048:Aplysia / Q000502:physiology*; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D004594:Electrophysiology / Q000295:instrumentation; D017952:Ganglia, Invertebrate / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology; D005880:Gills / Q000294:innervation / Q000502:physiology*; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D007257:Information Theory; D008027:Light; D009475:Neurons, Afferent / Q000502:physiology*; D012018:Reflex / Q000502:physiology*