Table 4.
Depolarized type B (n = 11) | I: Control | II: Muscarine alone (10 μM) | III: Muscarine (10 μM) +Scopolamine (10 μM) | p-value | ||
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I vs. II | II vs. III | I vs. III | ||||
Vm (mV) | −48.37 ± 3.97 | −45.08 ± 4.72 | −47.89 ± 3.68 | 0.001 | 0.001 | 0.52 |
F (Hz) | 13.50 ± 12.54 | 23.04 ± 16.71 | 16.48 ± 14.31 | 0.001 | 0.003 | 0.32 |
CV | 24.18 ± 21.91 | 19.67 ± 33.44 | 22.31 ± 21.42 | 0.24 | 0.102 | 0.638 |
AHP (mV) | 24.68 ± 4.31 | 25.89 ± 4.61 | 26.45 ± 4.87 | 0.042 | 0.175 | 0.0019 |
Width (ms) | 0.81 ± 0.50 | 0.86 ± 0.51 | 0.87 ± 0.59 | 0.0047 | 0.848 | 0.186 |
Concavity (mV) | −0.91 ± 1.87 | −0.39 ± 0.76 | −1.36 ± 2.10 | 0.188 | 0.125 | 0.813 |
Convexity (mV) | 0.73 ± 0.70 | 0.90 ± 0.66 | 0.78 ± 0.53 | 0.24 | 0.465 | 0.7 |
AHPR (V/s) | 0.02 ± 0.03 | 0.03 ± 0.07 | 0.03 ± 0.08 | 0.625 | 0.625 | 0.625 |
dAHP (V/s) | 6.36 ± 4.54 | 5.26 ± 4.13 | 5.51 ± 4.28 | 0.0014 | 0.432 | 0.105 |
Resistance Hyperpol. (MΩ) |
362 ± 203 | 470 ± 277 | 396 ± 232 | 0.002 | 0.002 | 0.375 |
Resistance Depol. (MΩ) |
101 ± 49 | 128 ± 54 | 106 ± 49 | 0.002 | 0.002 | 0.492 |
Vm, membrane potential, F, spontaneous discharge frequency, CV, coefficient of variation of the spontaneous discharge, AHP, After HyperPolarization, Width, spike width at threshold, Concavity and convexity: quantification of the shape of the interspike interval, AHPR, quantification of the AHP rectification, dAHP, quantification of the double AHP, Resistance hyperpol: slope of the IV curve in response to hyperpolarizing steps, Resistance depol: slope of the IV curve in response to depolarizing steps. For more details on how these parameters are calculated see (31, 36, 37). Statistically significant differences are highlighted in red.