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The General Electrophysiology of Input Membrane in Electrogenic Excitable Cells

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Principles of Receptor Physiology

Part of the book series: Handbook of Sensory Physiology ((SENSORY,volume 1))

Abstract

The general electrophysiology of sensory receptors is concerned basically with the mechanisms by which changes in the environment are transformed (transduced) into a language that is intelligible to the nervous system. To satisfy this function, the signals transported by the sensory neuron must carry a reasonable facsimile of the information that was received (sensed) at the input. They must also be capable of propagation, including the capacity for transmission from one cell to another in the synaptic and/or ephaptic chains of the nervous system. In this context, the principles of the general electrophysiology of sensory receptors can be encompassed within the varieties of activity that bring the sensory data into the nervous system via the individual sensory neuron. The various requirements for specificity of the information and for its modulation with respect to stimulus conditions or states of the organism generally involve large assemblies of neurons. Although these functions are vital to the total behavioral reactions of the animal to the primary stimulus, they are of secondary importance in the present context.

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