Long-Term High Salt Intake Involves Reduced SK Currents and Increased Excitability of PVN Neurons with Projections to the Rostral Ventrolateral Medulla in Rats

Table 1

Properties of PVN-RVLM neurons.

Group	n	Vm (mV)	Cm (pF)	Rinput (GΩ)	Vt (mV)
NS	6	−57.8 ± 3.2	51.2 ± 4.7	0.54 ± 0.03	−42.8 ± 2.8
NS apamin	5	−55.8 ± 1.7	44.8 ± 3.3	0.78 ± 0.11	−38.0 ± 1.3
HS	6	−59.3 ± 1.5	47.0 ± 4.3	0.83 ± 0.08	−40.4 ± 1.8
HS apamin	6	−58.0 ± 1.0	41.2 ± 2.4	0.96 ± 0.11	−41.0 ± 2.1

V_m: resting membrane potential; C_m: membrane capacitance; R_input: depolarizing input resistance; V_t: subthreshold of membrane potential to fire action potential.