Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2016 Mar;147(3):273–288. doi: 10.1085/jgp.201511488

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

© 2016 Maciunas et al.

This article is distributed under the terms of an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike–No Mirror Sites license for the first six months after the publication date (see http://www.rupress.org/terms). After six months it is available under a Creative Commons License (Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 3.0 Unported license, as described at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/).

PMC Copyright notice

Figure 6. — Unidirectional signal transfer in a cluster of three cells through electrical synapses exhibiting I-V rectification. (A) Schematic of the cells with stimulation of cell 2. (B) g_j–V_j plot exhibiting rectification of GJs between cells 1 and 2 and no rectification of GJs between cells 2 and 3. (C) Stimulation of cell 2–initiated AP that spread to cell 2, but not to cell 1, because of reduced g_j,_1-2. (D) Stimulation of cell 1–initiated AP that increased g_j,_1-2 because of I-V rectification, therefore facilitating AP transfer to cells 2 and 3.