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SUBMITTER: Onodera K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5653240 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Onodera Koun K Baba Shumpei S Murakami Akira A Uemura Tadashi T Usui Tadao T
eLife 20171016
In <i>Drosophila</i> larvae, Class IV sensory neurons respond to noxious thermal stimuli and provoke heat avoidance behavior. Previously, we showed that the activated neurons displayed characteristic fluctuations of firing rates, which consisted of repetitive high-frequency spike trains and subsequent pause periods, and we proposed that the firing rate fluctuations enhanced the heat avoidance (Terada et al., 2016). Here, we further substantiate this idea by showing that the pause periods and the ...[more]