| Abstract: | Transient and steady-state components of L-glutamate-activated membrane currents were investigated using intracellular perfusion, voltage clamp, and concentration clamp techniques in spinal cord neurons of 6–11 day chick embryos. Hill's coefficient was found to equal 1 for transient and 2 for steady-state components. It was shown that the L-glutamate-activated receptors are present, which appear in the membrane of spinal neurons at the early stages of development.A. A. Bogomolets Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Kiev. Translated from Neirofiziologiya, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 251–258, March–April, 1987. |
