Inferior olive of the cat: intracellular recording.

The action potential evoked from inferior olivary neurons of the cat by orthodromic, antidromic, or intracellular stimulation has a large prolonged depolarization, frequently with several superimposed smaller spikes. The all-or-nothing unitary response appears to be a property of the cell, and the later spikes are not secondary to synaptic excitation by recurrent axon collaterals.