Neurotransmission in Guinea Pig Brains

Description

This dataset, guineapig_neurotransmission_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_neurotransmission_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 kept as 'guineapig_neurotransmission_df' to avoid confusion with other datasets in the R ecosystem. This naming convention helps distinguish this dataset as part of the NeuroDataSets package. The suffix 'df' indicates that the dataset is a data frame. The original content has not been modified.

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.