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From: Contrasting phenotypes of putative proprioceptive and nociceptive trigeminal neurons innervating jaw muscle in rat

Figure 1

Contrasting action potential characteristics of masseter muscle sensory afferents. Action potentials were elicited by injecting a brief depolarizing current step to neurons held at -70 mV and the width measured at 0 mV. A(i) illustrates 2 example action potentials from trigeminal ganglion masseter afferents while A(ii) illustrates an action potential from a typical MeV nucleus masseter afferent. Action potentials widths are plotted against cell body diameter in B, note the wide range of action potentials widths in masseter afferents isolated from the trigeminal ganglion contrasting with the very tightly grouped action potentials widths from MeV masseter afferents.

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