Table 4.

Physiological properties of responsive and nonresponsive CeM neurons

	Responsive Cells	Nonresponsive Cells	P Value
Resting potential, mV	−62.8 ± 2.4	−64.38 ± 2.8	0.68
Input resistance, MΩ	486.3 ± 82.5	487.7 ± 67.6	0.99
Time constant, ms	53.5 ± 8.5	46.8 ± 14.9	0.67
Rheobase, pA	31.7 ± 5.8	37.1 ± 4.7	0.52
Spike threshold, mV	−42.3 ± 1.2	−42.6 ± 1.3	0.87
Spike latency, ms	108.3 ± 29.9	83.6 ± 35.5	0.61
Spike amplitude, mV	92.7 ± 2.2	96.4 ± 2.6	0.3
Spike duration at half-amplitude, ms	0.5 ± 0.03	0.42 ± 0.04	0.16
Firing rate at rheobase, Hz	4.8 ± 0.7	6 ± 1.9	0.5

Values are means ± SE for responsive (n = 15) and nonresponsive CeM neurons (n = 8).