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J Neurophysiol 62: 1280-1286, 1989;
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Journal of Neurophysiology, Vol 62, Issue 6 1280-1286, Copyright © 1989 by APS

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Inward rectification in rat nucleus accumbens neurons

N. Uchimura, E. Cherubini and R. A. North
Vollum Institute, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland 97201.

1. Intracellular recordings were made from neurons in slices cut from the rat nucleus accumbens septi. Membrane currents were measured with a single-electrode voltage-clamp amplifier in the potential range -50 to -140 mV. 2. In control conditions (2.5 mM potassium), the resting membrane potential of the neurons was -83.4 +/- 1.1 (SE) mV (n = 157). Steady state membrane conductance was voltage dependent, being 34.8 +/- 1.7 nS (n = 25) at -100 mV and 8.0 +/- 0.7 nS (n = 25) at -60 mV. 3. Barium (1 microM) markedly reduced the inward rectification and caused a small inward current (40.6 +/- 8.7 pA, n = 8) at the resting potential. These effects became larger with higher barium concentrations, and, in 100 microM barium, the current-voltage relation was straight. 4. The block of the inward current by barium (at -130 mV) occurred with an exponential time course; the time constant was approximately 1 s at 1 microM barium and less than 90 ms with 100 microM. Strontium had effects similar to those of barium, but 1000-fold higher concentrations were required. Cesium chloride (2 mM) and rubidium chloride (2 mM) also blocked the inward rectification; their action reached steady state within 50 ms. 5. It is concluded that the nucleus accumbens neurons have a potassium conductance with many features of a typical inward rectifier and that this contributes to the potassium conductance at the resting potential.


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