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Crayfish escape behavior and central synapses. II. Physiological mechanisms underlying behavioral habituation

Crayfish escape behavior and central synapses. II. Physiological mechanisms underlying behavioral... Synapses. Physiological Mechanisms Behavioral ROBERT Department Stanford S. ZUCKER Biological Sciences and Unillersity, Stanford, California Program 94305 in the Neurological Sciences, THE PREVIOUS PAPER (58) OLlth’led thC. CirCUit responsible for exciting the lateral giant neuron and initiating single tail flips in response to phasic mechanical stimuli to the tail crayfish. It was shown that the excitation some tactile interneurons by tactile afferents antifacilitates extensively at low repetition rates. This phenomenon must be presumed to contribute to the the response. It is not clear, however, that this is the only phenomenon responsible for generating lability in the behavior. Receptor fatigue, variable properties the excitable membranes the lateral giant or the tactile interneurons, or labile properties the circuit efferent to the giant are additional possibilities. One other point lability has in fact been found. The strength transmission at the neuromuscular junction between the motor giant neuron and the phasic flexor muscles is very sensitive to stimuli recurring only once per minute; this junction rapidly ceases to transmit activity after only a few stimuli (6). The motor giant is sometimes excited by the lateral giant (20, 39), and so it appears that this is a source declining response strength in the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Neurophysiology The American Physiological Society

Crayfish escape behavior and central synapses. II. Physiological mechanisms underlying behavioral habituation

R. S. Zucker
Journal of Neurophysiology , Volume 35: 621 – Sep 1, 1972
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Synapses. Physiological Mechanisms Behavioral ROBERT Department Stanford S. ZUCKER Biological Sciences and Unillersity, Stanford, California Program 94305 in the Neurological Sciences, THE PREVIOUS PAPER (58) OLlth’led thC. CirCUit responsible for exciting the lateral giant neuron and initiating single tail flips in response to phasic mechanical stimuli to the tail crayfish. It was shown that the excitation some tactile interneurons by tactile afferents antifacilitates extensively at low repetition rates. This phenomenon must be presumed to contribute to the the response. It is not clear, however, that this is the only phenomenon responsible for generating lability in the behavior. Receptor fatigue, variable properties the excitable membranes the lateral giant or the tactile interneurons, or labile properties the circuit efferent to the giant are additional possibilities. One other point lability has in fact been found. The strength transmission at the neuromuscular junction between the motor giant neuron and the phasic flexor muscles is very sensitive to stimuli recurring only once per minute; this junction rapidly ceases to transmit activity after only a few stimuli (6). The motor giant is sometimes excited by the lateral giant (20, 39), and so it appears that this is a source declining response strength in the

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Published: Sep 1, 1972

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