Article: Two distinct populations of projection neurons in the rat lateral parafascicular thalamic nucleus and their cholinergic responsiveness.
Full Text (publisher's website) ; Article Metadata ; Article Data (extracted) Beatty JA; Sylwestrak EL; Cox CL Neuroscience, 2009
Table 1Intrinsic properties and morphological measurements of bushy and diffuse type lPf neurons
The numbers in parentheses indicate the number of neurons tested.⁎Statistically significant difference using a Mann–Whitney test.
Bushy | Diffuse | P | |
Resting membrane potential (mV) | −73±7(78) | −62±7(149) | <0.01⁎ |
Rinput (MΩ) | 492±234(76) | 1003±529(142) | <0.01⁎ |
Action potential ½ width (ms) | 1.92±0.25(10) | 1.63±0.32(13) | <0.03⁎ |
Action potential amplitude (mV) | 65±5(10) | 68±6(13) | NS |
Maximum AP discharge (Hz) | 31.2±8.9(10) | 23.3±7.3(13) | <0.05⁎ |
Slope frequency/intensity (Hz/pA) | 0.40±0.17(10) | 0.32±0.20(13) | NS |
Spike adaptation (1/final ISI)/(1/initial ISI) | 0.30±0.12(10) | 0.53±0.23(13) | <0.01⁎ |
Soma area (mm2) | 299±94(76) | 315±119(141) | NS |
Major/minor axis ratio | 1.43±0.31(76) | 1.44±0.27(141) | NS |
Major dendrite length (mm) | 195±60(75) | 396±133(137) | <0.01⁎ |