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excitatory

ADJECTIVE
  1. (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate

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  • That said, it is part of the joy of popular science writing that it can lead one to the point of comprehending sentences such as: "These findings with MK-801 pretreatment suggested that LTP and/or LTD of the excitatory synapses received by the neurons of the VTA was induced in rats as a result of taking cocaine. Pleasure by David Linden - review
  • The results showed that as a neurotransmitter TRH has facilitatory effect on excitatory synaptic transmission in spinal cord.
  • Neurosteroids can therefore alter neuronal excitability very rapidly by binding to receptors for inhibitory or excitatory neurotransmitters at the cell membrane.
  • The monosynaptic connection is excitatory, but, because the Martinotti cell makes GABAergic synapses onto its targets, the disynaptic connection is inhibitory. PLoS Biology: New Articles
  • Thus: a given inhibitory tetanus exerted on a certain set of motoneurones fails to prevent their excitation in response to strong stimulation of a given afferent nerve; but when the stimulation of the excitatory afferent is weaker the given standard inhibitory tetanus does prevent the response of the motor neurones to the excitatory stimulation. Sir Charles Sherrington - Nobel Lecture
  • This local depolarization is known as an excitatory synaptic potential, and its amplitude is determined by the number of vesicles released from the presynaptic cell.
  • The responsible nerves appear to include both excitatory cholinergic fibers and inhibitory fibers that probably release nitric oxide.
  • The majority of brain cells are called excitatory because they ramp up the action of target cells. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • The cells that responded to nerve stimulation were most likely principal neurons and not interneurons, because fast excitatory postsynaptic potentials were recorded in these cells.
  • T.umoto, T. Difference in binocularity and ocular dominance plasticity between GABAergic and excitatory cortical neurons. Innovations-report
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