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ELECTRICAL SYNAPSES IN THE MAMMALIAN BRAIN [PDF]

Annual Review of Neuroscience, 2004
▪ Abstract  Many neurons in the mammalian central nervous system communicate through electrical synapses, defined here as gap junction–mediated connections. Electrical synapses are reciprocal pathways for ionic current and small organic molecules. They are often strong enough to mediate close synchronization of subthreshold and spiking activity among ...
Barry Connors
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Asymmetry of an Intracellular Scaffold at Vertebrate Electrical Synapses. [PDF]

Curr Biol, 2017
Abstract Neuronal synaptic connections are electrical or chemical and together are essential to dynamically defining neural circuit function. While chemical synapses are well known for their biochemical complexity, electrical synapses are often viewed as comprised solely of neuronal gap junction channels that allow ...
Marsh AJ, Michel JC, Adke AP, Heckman EL, Miller AC.   +4 more
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Electrical Synapses: Rectification Demystified [PDF]

Current Biology, 2009
Some electrical synapses rectify - they pass current preferentially in one direction. A new study argues that rectifying junctions result when the two sides of the junction contribute hemichannels with different properties to the gap junction.
Marder, Eve
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Inhibition potentiates the synchronizing action of electrical synapses [PDF]

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 2007
In vivo and in vitro experimental studies have found that blocking electrical interactions connecting GABAergic interneurons reduces oscillatory activity in the µ range in cortex.
Benjamin Pfeuty, David Golomb, David Hansel, David Hansel   +3 more
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The Strength of Electrical Synapses [PDF]

Science, 2011
The strength of electrical synapses in the mammalian brain can be modulated by neuronal activity.
Shaul Hestrin
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Optimal Self-Induced Stochastic Resonance in Multiplex Neural Networks: Electrical vs. Chemical Synapses

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 2020
Electrical and chemical synapses shape the dynamics of neural networks, and their functional roles in information processing have been a longstanding question in neurobiology.
Marius E. Yamakou, Marius E. Yamakou, Poul G. Hjorth, Erik A. Martens, Erik A. Martens, Erik A. Martens   +5 more
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Endocannabinoid release modulates electrical coupling between CCK cells connected via chemical and electrical synapses in CA1 [PDF]

Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 2011
Electrical coupling between some subclasses of interneurons is thought to promote coordinated firing that generates rhythmic synchronous activity in cortical regions.
Jonathan eIball, Ali eAfia
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Antidromic-rectifying gap junctions amplify chemical transmission at functionally mixed electrical-chemical synapses

Nature Communications, 2017
Emerging evidence suggests that chemical and electrical synapses interact to regulate the strength of synaptic transmission. Liuet al. report that in a C.
Ping Liu, Bojun Chen, Roger Mailler, Zhao-Wen Wang   +3 more
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A Direct Comparison of Different Measures for the Strength of Electrical Synapses [PDF]

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2019
During the last decades it became increasingly evident that electrical synapses are capable of activity-dependent plasticity. However, measuring the actual strength of electrical transmission remains difficult.
Georg Welzel, Stefan Schuster
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Configuration of electrical synapses filters sensory information to drive behavioral choices [PDF]

Cell
Daniel Colón-Ramos
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