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- Title
Imaging of Spiking and Subthreshold Activity of Mitral Cells with Voltage-Sensitive Dyes.
- Authors
DJURIŠIĆ, MAJA; ZEČEVIĆ, DEJAN
- Abstract
To obtain a more complete description of individual neurons, it is necessary to complement electrical measurements with technologies such as voltage imaging with intracellular dyes, which permit massive parallel recording from many sites on neuronal processes. Utilizing such an approach, we investigate the functional structure of the mitral cell, the principal output neuron in the rat olfactory bulb. These experiments were designed to determine the number, location, and the stability of spike trigger zones, the excitability of terminal dendritic branches, the pattern and nature of spike initiation and propagation in the primary dendrite, the basic characteristics of the evoked EPSPs at the site of origin (the glomerular tuft), and its attenuation along the primary dendrite. The images of spike trigger zones showed that an action potential can be initiated in three different compartments of the mitral cell: the soma-axon region, the primary dendrite trunk, and the terminal dendritic tuft, which appears to be fully excitable. The amplitude of the EPSPs evoked by olfactory nerve stimulation was determined at the site of origin (glomerular tuft) and its attenuation was monitored optically along the entire length of the primary dendrite.
- Subjects
DIAGNOSTIC imaging; NEURONS; DYES in medical diagnosis; DIAGNOSIS; DENDRITES
- Publication
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2005, Vol 1048, Issue 1, p92
- ISSN
0077-8923
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1196/annals.1342.009