Table 1

Passive and active physiological properties of dorsal and ventral PV BCs

DorsalVentralp value
Passive properties
    Resting membrane potential (mV)−66.0 ± 1.7 (25)−67.7 ± 1.6 (32)0.46
    Input resistance (MΩ)83.1 ± 8.0 (25)95.3 ± 8.0 (28)0.29
    Membrane time constant (ms)11.5 ± 1.5 (17)14.9 ± 2.7 (23)0.87
    Membrane capacitance (pF)16.7 ± 2.9 (13)13.1 ± 1.4 (16)0.28
Active properties
    Rheobase (pA)205.3 ± 48.2 (11)164.7 ± 34.9 (15)0.50
    Voltage threshold (mV)−38.2 ± 1.0 (11)−40.8 ± 1.2 (15)0.10
    AP amplitude (mV)*53.5 ± 3.6 (11)64.4 ± 4.0 (15)0.07
    AP rise time (ms)0.99 ± 0.55 (11)0.33 ± 0.19 (14)0.57
    AP maximum rise rate (mV/ms)308.2 ± 27.2 (11)326.1 ± 16.1 (15)0.56
    AP maximum decay rate (mV/ms)185.1 ± 20.0 (11)161.1 ± 14.3 (15)0.96
    Half-height width (ms)0.44 ± 0.04 (11)0.49 ± 0.03 (15)0.22
    Fast AHP amplitude (mV)*−20.4 ± 0.94 (12)−21.1 ± 0.79 (15)0.58
    Discharge frequency at 1 nA (Hz)298.0 ± 30.9 (16)252.1 ± 17.5 (22)0.21
Spontaneous synaptic input
    Spontaneous EPSC frequency (Hz)12.2 ± 6.8 (25)14.4 ± 7.6 (32)0.38
    Spontaneous EPSC amplitude (pA)−35.5 ± 25.7 (25)−38.3 ± 23.4 (32)0.73
  • Results shown as mean ± SEM; number of analyzed neurons are shown in parenthesis.

  • * Measured from threshold.