In this experiment the purpose was to illustrate that a synapse can travel in both directions in relation to the axon. By examining the traces seen below; it may be noticed that as the axon was triggered; the action potential traveled in the direction of the cell body. When the cell body was triggered, the action potential headed down the axon. Thus showing that a action potential may travel in both directions.
In the following traces, the cell which was triggered is noted by a negative line before the start of the action potential. For example in the first illustrated trace; the action potential is initially triggered on the cell which appears on top (which happens to be the cell body). Underneath is the response of the axon; which may be seen as slightly delayed. The second time we stimulated the Axon, and it may be seen that the cell body responded with its own set of action potentials.
In this trace; we wanted to calculate the time difference between the stimulus of the axon, and the response of the cell body. Witnessed by this trace; we can see that the time difference is very marginal. When we calculated it; it came out to be a time differential of about 1.52 ms.
