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Biophysical Journal 46: 323-330 (1984)
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A method for testing an extended poisson hypothesis of spontaneous quantal transmitter release at neuromuscular junctions.

K Yana, N Takeuchi, Y Takikawa and M Shimomura

ABSTRACT

A statistical method for testing the Poisson hypothesis of spontaneous quantal transmitter release at neuromuscular junctions has been proposed. The notion of the Poisson hypothesis is extended so as to allow for nonstationarity in the data, since nonstationarity is commonly seen in the occurrence of spontaneous miniature potentials. Special emphasis has been put on the nonstationary analysis of the quantal release. A time scaling technique has been introduced and is discussed for the analysis. Artificially generated data, which simulate three types of nonstationary spontaneous quantal release, i.e., Poisson, non-Poisson-clustered, and non-Poisson-ordered types, were analyzed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the method. Some sets of miniature endplate potentials, intracellularly recorded at frog sartorius neuromuscular junctions in low Ca++ and high Mg++ solutions showing apparent nonstationarities, were analyzed as illustrative examples. The proposed method will extend the range of applicable data for the statistical analysis of spontaneous quantal transmitter release.






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