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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 1^st 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,

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P<0.01,

^***

P<0.001