The phrase "alteration of firing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to changes in the process or method of firing, such as in military, industrial, or scientific discussions.
Example: "The alteration of firing protocols was necessary to improve safety and efficiency during the operation."
Alternatives: "change in firing" or "modification of firing".
We agree with Reviewer 2 that whole-cell recordings can be associated with significant alterations of firing.
Agriculturally induced transformation of Africa's unique set of functional herbivore guilds11, and the alteration of fire regimes12 may shift systems into tree-dominated states at the local scale.
However, at our research sites, most burning is done in the early spring and may not be possible in late spring due to Schedonorus arundinaceus (tall fescue) greenup and alteration of fire behavior (McGranahan et al. [2012]).
Moreover, a shift in precipitation pattern may have further consequences, such as the alteration of fire regimes, grass biomass production or woody plant carbon uptake.
Risk and liability concerns regarding fire affect people's attitudes toward fire and have led to human-induced alterations of fire regimes.
Learning consists of the alteration of these firing probabilities over time in response to further sensory input.
Miller et al. (2011) compared gene expression in fast-spiking GABAergic interneurons from 48-hr muscimol-treated and saline-treated sides of motor cortex, which led to dramatic alteration in firing properties of these neurons but only 13 DEG (q < 0.05).
This alteration of natural fire regimes by the reduction in fire frequencies leads to changes in vegetation, especially to the loss of the native fire-resistant species.
It is possible that the changes that we observe might be due to alterations in firing at earlier stages of processing, such as layer 4 or the thalamus.
The weak 8 Hz protocol (30 pulses) induced an alteration of the neuronal firing only in a subset of the used animals.
