Neurosci Lett 1996 May 03;2091:61-4. doi: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12602-1.

In situ recordings of presumed folliculo-stellate cells in the intermediate lobe of the pituitary gland of Xenopus laevis.

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In situ whole cell voltage clamp recordings of presumed folliculo-stellate cells were made in the intermediate lobe of the clawed toad Xenopus laevis. Lucifer Yellow fillings revealed, in addition to the small, spherical melanotropes, a population of larger cells with many processes that were, to a limited extent, dye-coupled and are assumed to be folliculo-stellate cells. The presumed folliculo-stellate cells differed strongly from the melanotropes in electrophysiological properties. The cells had a membrane resistance of < 600 M omega (at -100 to -80 mV) and a membrane potential of ca. -90 mV, close to the equilibrium potential for K+. At potentials of > or = -20 mV, most of the cells displayed a rapidly activating and slowly inactivating outward K+ current. In all cells, hyperpolarizing pulses to < or = -100 mV activated an inward rectifying K+ current.

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