Table 1.

The comparison of the properties of spontaneous synaptic currents of excitatory (EPSCs) and inhibitory postsynaptic currents (IPSCs) recorded from pharmacologically and electrophysiologically identified baroreceptive neurons of nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS) using adult female rats

	Rise time/ms		Decay time/ms		Mean amplitude/pA
	EPSCs	IPSCs	EPSCs	IPSCs	EPSCs	IPSCs
A‐type	1.24 ± 0.4	2.5 ± 0.7a	6.2 ± 4.2	36 ± 17b	57 ± 17	54 ± 15
Ah‐type	1.27 ± 0.6	2.8 ± 0.5a	5.8 ± 3.9	39 ± 18b	54 ± 12d	22 ± 16b , c , d
C‐type	1.28 ± 0.7	2.8 ± 0.9a	7.1 ± 5.1	42 ± 16b	23 ± 8	13 ± 6a

The rise time, decay time, and the mean amplitude of EPSCs and IPSCs were analyzed and compared between EPSCs and IPSCs, or each of them among the different groups of neurons. The averaged data were presented as mean ± SD.

^a P < 0.05 and

^b P < 0.01 vs EPSC;

^c P < 0.01 vs A‐types;

^d P < 0.05 vs C‐type, n = 5, 6, and 8 for A‐, Ah‐, and C‐types.