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Science 20 July 1979:
Vol. 205. no. 4403, pp. 304 - 306
DOI: 10.1126/science.221982
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Science, Vol 205, Issue 4403, 304-306
Copyright © 1979 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Nonimpulse-mediated synaptic transmission during the generation of a cyclic motor program

JA Raper

A small neuronal network in the lobster stomatogastric ganglion, composed of impulse-producing motor neurons, gives rise to cyclic patterned outputs. This network continues to generate its cyclic motor program if impulse production within the ganglion is blocked. Continuously graded, nonimpulse-mediated, chemical synaptic transmission is suffucient to coordinate neuronal activity in a functioning pattern generator.


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