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Snail Model System!

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Intro to snails as a model system in neurobiology!

Our lab snail!

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Pond snail brains!

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ventral dorsal

Identified neurons in pond snail brains!

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Snail Buccal Ganglia

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Buccal ganglia neurons!

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Smail Week 1. Firing properties of snail neurons!

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Responses to current injection!

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Firing Accomondation!

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Post-inhibitory rebound!

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Burster neurons!

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Snail week 2. Ionic mechanisms of excitability!

Reduced Na! Reduced Ca!

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K+ Channel block with TEA!

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K+ Channel block with TEA/Cs!

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TEA/CS block progressing over time (5 minutes)!

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K+ Channel block with barium!

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Excitability mechanisms: Voltage Clamp!Describing the ionic conductances underlying the AP!

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Voltage clamp technique to examine ionic currents!

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Problems analyzing conductances underlying AP!

! 1. ICm obscured IRm!

! 2. Conductances changed during AP!

Current across membrane!

Im = I Rm + ICm!

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Ohm’s law for V-Clamp!

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Ionic driving forces at rest!

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Ionic driving forces at rest!

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Current across membrane with

hyperpolarizations!

Im = I Rm + ICm!

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Current across membrane with

weak depolarizations!

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Current across membrane with

strong depolarizations!

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INa!

IK!

Measure I!