Abstract: | Intracellular responses of granule cells and secondary neurons of the carp olfactory bulb to electrical stimulation of the olfactory nerve and olfactory tract were investigated. Synaptic responses of granule cells to both types of stimuli consisted of an early and late EPSP and IPSP. Comparison of responses of the secondary and granule neurons indicated that the granule cells are interneurons of postsynaptic inhibition of secondary neurons. The results suggest that dendro-dendritic and recurrent collateral pathways exist for the activation of granule cells and that inhibitory synapses are located on those dendrites of the secondary neurons that are in contact with endings of olfactory nerve fibers.M. V. Lomonosov State University, Moscow. Translated from Neirofiziologiya, Vol. 7, No. 6, pp. 597–602, November–December, 1975. |