excitatory input
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input
noun
uk/ˈɪn.pʊt/us/ˈɪn.pʊt/
something such as energy, money, or information that is put into a system, organization, or machine so that it ...
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In vivo, the visual stimulus activates inputs over a much wider area, including both the directexcitatoryinputand lateral inhibitory inputs.
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Having theexcitatoryinputin common would help ensure that the overall level of responsiveness of the co-fasciculated cells was similar.
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A shunting inhibitory input can reduce the effects of anexcitatoryinput, but not hyperpolarize the cell.
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This would suggest that these select amacrine cells would play a unique role in processingexcitatoryinputin retinal processing.
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Each of these four simple cells contributes equally to theexcitatoryinputrate to the complex cell.
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Now consider a cell which receivesexcitatoryinputfrom one and inhibitory input from the other.
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A simple interpretation is that the cells receive a commonexcitatoryinputbut different inhibitory ones.
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In vitro, we elicited primarily theexcitatoryinputby electrical stimulation of the primary afferent input from a position above or below the cell recorded.
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Neurotransmitter receptors mediatingexcitatoryinputto cells in the cat lateral geniculate nucleus.
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These axon-bearing amacrine cells in turn provide a powerful source of delayed inhibition, distributed over a wide area, whose peak coincides with the falling phase of theexcitatoryinput.
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Amacrine cells receive synaptic input from other amacrine cells; however, their primaryexcitatoryinputcomes from glutamatergic bipolar cells.
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When the orientation of a flashing bar coincides with the longer axis of the receptive field, the cell receives strongerexcitatoryinputand therefore gives a stronger response.
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His study indicated that the null-mediated inhibition may exert itself either presynaptically on theexcitatoryinputfrom the cone-bipolar-axon terminal or, more probably, post-synaptically on the ganglion-cell dendrite.
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They receiveexcitatoryinputfrom mossy fibres, also synapsing on granule cells, and parallel fibers, which are long granule cell axons.
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A pathway can be facilitated byexcitatoryinput; removal of such input constitutes disfacilitation.
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Smaller neurons require a smaller amount ofexcitatoryinputto reach its threshold compared to larger neurons.
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These granule cells receiveexcitatoryinputfrom mossy fibers originating from pontine nuclei.
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The subthalamic nucleus givesexcitatoryinputthat modulates the rate of firing of these spontaneous action potentials.
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The spatial summation of an inhibitory input will nullify anexcitatoryinput.
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