Frequency of miniature excitatory postsynaptic potentials (mEPSPs)

Value 4 Hz Range: ±0.4 Hz
Organism Fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster
Reference Peled ES, Isacoff EY. Optical quantal analysis of synaptic transmission in wild-type and rab3-mutant Drosophila motor axons. Nat Neurosci. 2011 Apr14(4):519-26. doi: 10.1038/nn.2767. p.520 right column bottom paragraphPubMed ID21378971
Comments "Miniature excitatory postsynaptic potentials (mEPSPs), evoked by the spontaneous fusion of synaptic vesicles, occurred at a low frequency (4 ± 0.4 Hz, n = 9 NMJs) in [researchers'] standard recording solution."
Entered by Uri M
ID 108868