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Electrophysiological Excitability and Parallel Fiber Synaptic Properties of Zebrin-Positive and -Negative Purkinje Cells in Lobule VIII of the Mouse Cerebellar Slice

Heterogeneous populations of cerebellar Purkinje cells (PCs) are arranged into separate longitudinal stripes, which have different topographic afferent and efferent axonal connections presumably involved in different functions, and also show different electrophysiological properties in firing patter...

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Autores principales: Nguyen-Minh, Viet T., Tran-Anh, Khoa, Luo, Yuanjun, Sugihara, Izumi
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6331690/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30670950
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2018.00513
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author Nguyen-Minh, Viet T.
Tran-Anh, Khoa
Luo, Yuanjun
Sugihara, Izumi
author_facet Nguyen-Minh, Viet T.
Tran-Anh, Khoa
Luo, Yuanjun
Sugihara, Izumi
author_sort Nguyen-Minh, Viet T.
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description Heterogeneous populations of cerebellar Purkinje cells (PCs) are arranged into separate longitudinal stripes, which have different topographic afferent and efferent axonal connections presumably involved in different functions, and also show different electrophysiological properties in firing pattern and synaptic plasticity. However, whether the differences in molecular expression that define heterogeneous PC populations affect their electrophysiological properties has not been much clarified. Since the expression pattern of many of such molecules, including glutamate transporter EAAT4, replicates that of aldolase C or zebrin II, we recorded from PCs of different “zebrin types” (zebrin-positive = aldolase C-positive = Z+; and Z−) in identified neighboring stripes in vermal lobule VIII, in which Z+ and Z− stripes occupy similar widths, in the Aldoc-Venus mouse cerebellar slice preparation. Regarding basic cellular electrophysiological properties, no significant differences were observed in input resistance or in occurrence probability of types of firing patterns between Z+ and Z− PCs. However, the firing frequency of the tonic firing type was higher in Z− PCs than in Z+ PCs. In the case of parallel fiber (PF)-PC synaptic transmission, no significant differences were observed between Z+ and Z− PCs in interval dependency of paired pulse facilitation or in time course of synaptic current measured without or with the blocker of glutamate receptor desensitization. These results indicate that different expression levels of the molecules that are associated with the zebrin type may affect the intrinsic firing property of PCs but not directly affect the basic electrophysiological properties of PF-PC synaptic transmission significantly in lobule VIII. The results suggest that the zebrin types of PCs in lobule VIII is linked with some intrinsic electrophysiological neuronal characteristics which affect the firing frequency of PCs. However, the results also suggest that the molecular expression differences linked with zebrin types of PCs does not much affect basic electrophysiological properties of PF-PC synaptic transmission in a physiological condition in lobule VIII.
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spelling pubmed-63316902019-01-22 Electrophysiological Excitability and Parallel Fiber Synaptic Properties of Zebrin-Positive and -Negative Purkinje Cells in Lobule VIII of the Mouse Cerebellar Slice Nguyen-Minh, Viet T. Tran-Anh, Khoa Luo, Yuanjun Sugihara, Izumi Front Cell Neurosci Neuroscience Heterogeneous populations of cerebellar Purkinje cells (PCs) are arranged into separate longitudinal stripes, which have different topographic afferent and efferent axonal connections presumably involved in different functions, and also show different electrophysiological properties in firing pattern and synaptic plasticity. However, whether the differences in molecular expression that define heterogeneous PC populations affect their electrophysiological properties has not been much clarified. Since the expression pattern of many of such molecules, including glutamate transporter EAAT4, replicates that of aldolase C or zebrin II, we recorded from PCs of different “zebrin types” (zebrin-positive = aldolase C-positive = Z+; and Z−) in identified neighboring stripes in vermal lobule VIII, in which Z+ and Z− stripes occupy similar widths, in the Aldoc-Venus mouse cerebellar slice preparation. Regarding basic cellular electrophysiological properties, no significant differences were observed in input resistance or in occurrence probability of types of firing patterns between Z+ and Z− PCs. However, the firing frequency of the tonic firing type was higher in Z− PCs than in Z+ PCs. In the case of parallel fiber (PF)-PC synaptic transmission, no significant differences were observed between Z+ and Z− PCs in interval dependency of paired pulse facilitation or in time course of synaptic current measured without or with the blocker of glutamate receptor desensitization. These results indicate that different expression levels of the molecules that are associated with the zebrin type may affect the intrinsic firing property of PCs but not directly affect the basic electrophysiological properties of PF-PC synaptic transmission significantly in lobule VIII. The results suggest that the zebrin types of PCs in lobule VIII is linked with some intrinsic electrophysiological neuronal characteristics which affect the firing frequency of PCs. However, the results also suggest that the molecular expression differences linked with zebrin types of PCs does not much affect basic electrophysiological properties of PF-PC synaptic transmission in a physiological condition in lobule VIII. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-01-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6331690/ /pubmed/30670950 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2018.00513 Text en Copyright © 2019 Nguyen-Minh, Tran-Anh, Luo and Sugihara. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Neuroscience
Nguyen-Minh, Viet T.
Tran-Anh, Khoa
Luo, Yuanjun
Sugihara, Izumi
Electrophysiological Excitability and Parallel Fiber Synaptic Properties of Zebrin-Positive and -Negative Purkinje Cells in Lobule VIII of the Mouse Cerebellar Slice
title Electrophysiological Excitability and Parallel Fiber Synaptic Properties of Zebrin-Positive and -Negative Purkinje Cells in Lobule VIII of the Mouse Cerebellar Slice
title_full Electrophysiological Excitability and Parallel Fiber Synaptic Properties of Zebrin-Positive and -Negative Purkinje Cells in Lobule VIII of the Mouse Cerebellar Slice
title_fullStr Electrophysiological Excitability and Parallel Fiber Synaptic Properties of Zebrin-Positive and -Negative Purkinje Cells in Lobule VIII of the Mouse Cerebellar Slice
title_full_unstemmed Electrophysiological Excitability and Parallel Fiber Synaptic Properties of Zebrin-Positive and -Negative Purkinje Cells in Lobule VIII of the Mouse Cerebellar Slice
title_short Electrophysiological Excitability and Parallel Fiber Synaptic Properties of Zebrin-Positive and -Negative Purkinje Cells in Lobule VIII of the Mouse Cerebellar Slice
title_sort electrophysiological excitability and parallel fiber synaptic properties of zebrin-positive and -negative purkinje cells in lobule viii of the mouse cerebellar slice
topic Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6331690/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30670950
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2018.00513
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