Table 1.

Comparison of the relative strength of CA3 pyramidal cells output in relation to their MF GABAergic or glutamatergic inputs.

	MF-EPSCs	MF-GPSCs
Erev	0 mV	−44 mV
Mean (20–80%) rise time	0.4 ms	1.4 ms
Mean (20–80%) decay time	4.8 ms	27 ms
Firing frequency	20–50 Hz	20–50 Hz
Unitary conductance	133 pS	1.5 nS
Maximum peak conductance	5.5 nS	13.8 nS
Estimated quantal content	up to 50	up to 10
MF inputs (randomly activated)	30	30
Spike threshold	−45 mV	−45 mV