Phase plane description of crayfish swimmeret oscillator
Tóm tắt
Crayfish swimmeret system shows rhythmic, coordinated behavior when the command fibers are stimulated chronically by electrical pulses, and the oscillating frequency becomes faster with increasing stimulus frequency. This behavior is organized by the distributed neural oscillators in the abdominal ganglia. We investigated the dynamics of the neural oscillators which are controlled by command fibers. Phase resetting experiment technique was used for this purpose; a temporary cessation of commanding pulses, which was regarded as suppressive perturbation for the neural oscillator, was applied to the chronically stimulated oscillator, and phase transition curves (PTCs) were measured. For the short cessation of command pulses, type 1 PTCs were obtained. With increasing cessation length, the PTC shifted downward, and finally changed into type 0. We also measured PTCs for temporarily increased stimulus frequency, which was an excitatory perturbation for the neural oscillator and increased the frequency of the oscillation transiently. For the short excitatory perturbation, the PTCs were also type 1 and shifted upward. PTCs changed their shapes from type 1 into type 0, as increasing the perturbation length. These shapes of the PTCs contain important information about the properties of the neural oscillator. Analyzing these PTCs, we present a phase plane diagram which describes the character of the command control of the neural oscillator.
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