Synaptic Function in the Fish Spinal Cord: Dendritic Integration

Publisher This chapter describes the spinal circuitry involved in the startle response in teleost fish. The achievement of very constant and precise time discrimination depends partly upon the special properties of the first activated synaptic region of the motoneuron. The initiation of the spike is determined by the integration, in this same region, of local synaptic activity. This is expressed as dendritic integration. Dendritic integration, …