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* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jgoldber{at}bsd.uchicago.edu.
Synaptic activity was recorded during rest and during 0.3-Hz sinusoidal stimulation from bouton afferents identified by their efferent-mediated inhibitory responses. CNQX decreased quantal size (qsize), while lowering external Ca2+ decreased quantal rate (qrate). Resting activity. mEPSPs had effective durations (qdur) of 3.5 - 5 ms. Their timing was consistent with Poisson statistics. Mean qsizes ranged in different units from 0.25 - 0.73 mV and mean qrates from 200 - 1500/s; there was an inverse relation across the afferent population between qrate and qsize. qsize distributions were consistent with the independent release of variable-sized quanta. Channel noise, measured during AMPA-induced depolarizations, was small compared to quantal noise. Stimulated activity. Excitatory responses were larger than inhibitory responses. Peak qrates, which could approach 3000/s, led peak excitatory mechanical stimulation by 40°. Quantal parameters varied with stimulation phase with qdur and qsize being maximal during inhibitory stimulation. Voltage modulation (vmod) was in phase with qrate and had a peak depolarization of 1.5 - 3 mV. Approximately 80% of vmod was accounted for by quantal activity, the remaining 20% by a non-quantal component that persisted in the absence of quantal activity. The extracellular accumulation of glutamate and K+ are potential sources of non-quantal transmission and may provide a basis for the inverse relation between qrate and qsize. Comparison of the phases of synaptic and spike activity suggests that both presynaptic and postsynaptic mechanisms contribute to variations across afferents in the timing of spikes during sinusoidal stimulation.
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