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- Title
Mixed Mode Oscillations in Mouse Spinal Motoneurons Arise from a Low Excitability State.
- Authors
Iglesias, Caroline; Meunier, Claude; Manuel, Marin; Timofeeva, Yulia; Delestrée, Nicolas; Zytnicki, Daniel
- Abstract
We explain the mechanism that elicits the mixed mode oscillations (MMOs) and the subprimary firing range that we recently discovered in mouse spinal motoneurons. In this firing regime, high-frequency subthreshold oscillations appear a few millivolts below the spike voltage threshold and precede the firing of a full blown spike. By combining intracellular recordings in vivo (including dynamic clamp experiments) in mouse spinal motoneurons and modeling, we show that the subthreshold oscillations are due to the spike currents and that MMOs appear each time the membrane is in a low excitability state. Slow kinetic processes largely contribute to this low excitability. The clockwise hysteresis in the I-F relationship, frequently observed in mouse motoneurons, is mainly due to a substantial slow inactivation of the sodium current. As a consequence, less sodium current is available for spiking. This explains why a large subprimary range with numerous oscillations is present in motoneurons displaying a clockwise hysteresis. In motoneurons whose I-F curve exhibits a counterclockwise hysteresis, it is likely that the slow inactivation operates on a shorter time scale and is substantially reduced by the de-inactivating effect of the after hyperpolarization (AHP) current, thus resulting in a more excitable state. This accounts for the short subprimary firing range with only a few MMOs seen in these motoneurons. Our study reveals a new role for the AHP current that sets the membrane excitability level by counteracting the slow inactivation of the sodium current and allows or precludes the appearance of MMOs.
- Subjects
OSCILLATIONS; LABORATORY mice; MOTOR neurons; HYSTERESIS motors; EXCITATION (Physiology)
- Publication
Journal of Neuroscience, 2011, Vol 31, Issue 15, p5829
- ISSN
0270-6474
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6363-10.2011