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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Neurobiol. 2014 Jun 26;74(12):1268–1276. doi: 10.1002/dneu.22203

Table 1. Characteristics of membrane properties of rat cerebellar DCN neurons aged between p16 and p40.

Groups N Resting Vm
(mV)		 Spontaneou
sly firing
frequency
(Hz)		 Input
resistance
(MΩ)		 Threshold
(mV)		 Current
required for
elicited AP		 Latency for
1st elicited
AP (ms)		 AP
amplitude
(mV)		 APD (ms) APD
rising
phase(ms)		 APD falling
phase (ms)		 AHP (mV) S1S2(ms) S2S3 (ms)
Pre-weaning (p16-21) 25 -48.40±0.72 14.33±1.77 112.32 ±8.35 -46.29±0.79 0.04±0.01 20.05±2.26 61.74±1.86 1.09±0.10 0.42±0.03 0.68±0.07 -7.26±1.04 11.45±1.46 16.66±2.46
Post-weaning (p22-40) 59 -48.93±0.46 20.04±2.19 108.11 ±5.20 -45.38±0.58 0.04±0.01 24.27±3.29 61.12±1.32 0.87±0.04* 0.36±0.01* 0.51±0.02** -12.00±0.51*** 19.39±2.23* 22.64±2.27

Vm: membrane potential; AP: Action potential; APD: action potential duration; AHP: afterhyperpolarization.

*

P<0.05 between Pre-weaning and Post-weaning group,

**

P<0.01,

***

P<0.001