ReviewFrontiers in human neuroscience2013
Inhibition among olfactory receptor neurons.
Review in Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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- Novel mechanisms of chemosensory adaptation to the cave environment.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- An evolutionarily conserved cation channel tunes the sensitivity of gustatory neurons to ephaptic inhibition inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
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- Olfactory systems across mosquito species.Cell and tissue research · 2021Review
- Odorant Inhibition in Mosquito Olfaction.iScience · 2019Article
- Asymmetric ephaptic inhibition between compartmentalized olfactory receptor neurons.Nature communications · 2019Article
- Odorant mixtures elicit less variable and faster responses than pure odorants.PLoS computational biology · 2018Article
- Signaling Mode of the Broad-Spectrum Conserved CONeuron · 2018Article
- Two Forms of Electrical Transmission Between Neurons.Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2018Article
- Putative Neural Network Within an Olfactory Sensory Unit for Nestmate and Non-nestmate Discrimination in the Japanese Carpenter Ant: The Ultra-structures and Mathematical Simulation.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2018Article
- Heart Rate and Extracellular Sodium and Potassium Modulation of Gap Junction Mediated Conduction in Guinea Pigs.Frontiers in physiology · 2016Article
- Cardiac conduction in isolated hearts of genetically modified mice--Connexin43 and salts.Progress in biophysics and molecular biology · 2016Review
- Modulation of neural circuits: how stimulus context shapes innate behavior in Drosophila.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2014Review
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Abstract
Often assumed to be epiphenomena of a cell's activity, extracellular currents and resulting potential changes are increasingly recognized to influence the function of other cells in the vicinity. Experimental evidence shows that even small electric fields can modulate spike timing in neurons. Moreover, when neurons are brought close together experimentally or in pathological conditions, activity in one neuron can excite its neighbors. Inhibitory ephaptic mechanisms, however, may depend on more specialized coupling among cells. Recent studies in the Drosophila olfactory system have shown that excitation of a sensory neuron can inhibit its neighbor, and it was speculated that this interaction was ephaptic. Here we give an overview of ephaptic interactions that effect changes in spike timing, excitation or inhibition in diverse systems with potential relevance to human neuroscience. We examine the mechanism of the inhibitory interaction in the Drosophila system and that of the well-studied ephaptic inhibition of the Mauthner cell in more detail. We note that both current towards and current away from the local extracellular environment of a neuron can inhibit it, but the mechanism depends on the specific architecture of each system.
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