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Reduced-system analysis of the effects of serotonin on a molluscan burster neuron
1Department of Mathematics and Supercomputer Computations Research Institute, Florida State University, Tallahassee 32306.
Biological Cybernetics
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
The mathematical model described in Bertram (1993) is used to carry out a detailed examination of the manner in which the neurotransmitter serotonin modifies the voltage waveform generated endogenously by burster neuron R15 of Aplysia. This analysis makes use of a reduced system of equations, taking advantage of the slow rate of change of a pair of system variables relative to the others. Such analysis also yields information concerning the sensitivity of the neuron to brief+ synaptic perturbations.