Guinea Pig Neural Data

Description

This dataset, guineapig_neuro_df, is a data frame containing measurements of spontaneous current amplitudes recorded from individual brain cells in adult guinea pigs. The study investigated whether synaptic transmission occurs in quantal units, which would manifest as multimodal amplitude distributions with regularly spaced peaks.

Usage

data(guineapig_neuro_df)

Format

A data frame with 346 observations and 1 variable:

y

Numeric: Peak amplitude of spontaneous synaptic currents (pA or similar units)

Details

The dataset name has been updated to 'guineapig_neuro_df' for clarity and brevity while preserving consistency with other datasets in the NeuroDataSets package. The suffix 'df' indicates that the dataset is a standard data frame.

Source

Data taken from the boot package version 1.3-31. Original study: Paulsen, O. and Heggelund, P. (1994) The quantal size at retinogeniculate synapses determined from spontaneous and evoked EPSCs in guinea-pig thalamic slices. Journal of Physiology, 480, 505–511.