Complex morphofunctional studies of the barrel cortex of the rat identified and analyzed the ultrastructural characteristics of the dendrodendritic electrical synapses — gap junctions (GJ) — of stellate neurons of barrels D2—D3. The local nature of dendrite branching of barrel cells, limited to the volume of the barrel, suggests that these GJ, which account for 7% of all synapses, may be the structural basis of local intrabarrel electrotonic synchronization of pacemaker potentials of barrel neuron hyperpolarization on development of spindle-type activity in the corresponding column.
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Translated from Morfologiya, Vol. 133, No. 1, pp. 31–34, January–February, 2008.
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Kirichenko, E.Y., Povilaitite, P.E. & Sukhov, A.G. Role of gap junctions in local rhythmogenesis in cortical columns. Neurosci Behav Physi 39, 199–202 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11055-009-9106-x
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