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Cholinergic slow excitatory postsynaptic potentials (slow EPSPs) can be elicited by presynaptic tetanic stimulation in brain slices obtained from rat neostriatum or guinea pig hippocampus. Slow EPSPs are generated by a reduction of a K-leak-conductance. In hippocampal neurons slow EPSPs are amplified by the reduction of an outward current termed IAHP through the activation of a second muscarinic receptor subtype. While hippocampal slow EPSPs might be involved in information processing across hippocampal pathways, muscarinic modulation in the neostriatum consists of a presynaptic tuning of nicotinic fast synaptic transmission.
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Misgeld, U. (1989). Muscarinic slow EPSPs in neostriatal and hippocampal neurons in vitro . In: Frotscher, M., Misgeld, U. (eds) Central Cholinergic Synaptic Transmission. Experientia Supplementum, vol 57. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-9138-7_11
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