Ancestry of basal ganglia circuits: New evidence in teleosts
Ancestry of basal ganglia circuits: New evidence in teleosts
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基底神经节回路的祖先:硬骨鱼的新证据
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2014
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M. Wullimann
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The elegant and long overdue analysis presented by Filippi, Mueller, and Driever in this issue of Journal of Comparative Neurology addresses questions relating to phyletic origins of basal ganglia circuitry, specifically whether dopaminergic (and noradrenergic) neurons in the zebrafish (Danio rerio) brain express molecular features characteristic of corelease of glutamate and GABA. This is important for understanding the evolutionary origins of the direct and indirect pathways for basal ganglia control of motor function as known in amniote vertebrates. A hard road of comparative research led to the current evolutionary understanding of vertebrate basal ganglia. In mammals, the motor loop of basal ganglia circuitry starts in the isocortex and activates two different striatal inhibitory (GABAergic) neuronal populations, which give rise to a direct and an indirect pathway (see Fig. 1). These two pathways form neural circuits running through internal and external pallidum, reticular portion of the substantia nigra (SNr), and a dorsal thalamic nucleus back to premotor–motor cortex. The specific synaptic interactions of direct and indirect pathways in these centers and their GABAergic vs. glutamatergic nature leads to excitatory (direct pathway) and inhibitory (indirect pathway) feedback onto isocortex. In behaviorally relevant situations, the dopaminergic compact nigral population (SNc) of the basal midbrain has a pivotal role for triggering the execution of a selected motor behavior, because the SNc releases dopamine onto both striatal GABAergic populations. These carry different dopamine receptors, i.e., direct pathway cells D1 receptors, indirect pathway cells D2 receptors. As a consequence, the D1-mediated excitatory intracellular signal in the striatal, direct pathway cells supports the excitatory feedback of the direct pathway onto cortex. In contrast, the D2-mediated inhibitory signal to striatal indirect pathway cells changes the sign of the neuronal output and, thus, results also in excitatory cortical feedback. In this way, nigral dopamine release leads to execution of a planned motor behavior through the basal ganglia motor loop in mammals (Mink, 2008). Consensus has been reached that in birds (Reiner, 2002; Reiner et al., 2004) homologous basal ganglia structures and circuitry also occur, including both descending (towards brainstem) and re-entrant pathways (back to dorsal pallium or Wulst). Although the situation is similar in reptiles (turtles, some lizards; Medina and Smeets, 1991), their motor loop differs because the major reptilian basal ganglia output leads to motor centers of pretectum, midbrain, and brainstem (descending pathway) and does not lead through thalamus back to dorsal cortex (re-entrant pathway). Anamniote tetrapods (amphibians) show essentially the reptilian situation; they lack the re-entrant pathway but show the other elements of the motor loop described above, including the descending output pathway (Mar ın et al., 1998a,b; Wullimann, 2011; see Fig. 2). Thus, the re-entrant pathway probably evolved convergently in birds and mammals. Exciting reports from Sten Grillner’s laboratory (Stephenson-Jones et al., 2011; Ericsson et al., 2013) recently demonstrated core elements of basal ganglia circuitry, neurochemistry, and neurophysiology in the river lamprey, a representative of an agnathan clade (Braun, 1996; Fig. 2). Combined tracing and transmitter studies demonstrate neurochemically different striatal GABAergic neuron populations and indicate the presence of direct and indirect pathways converging into a descending output pathway. However, lampreys lack the re-entrant pathway (see discussion in Wullimann, 2011; and Fig. 2), consistent with the organizational pattern of basal tetrapods, i.e., a dominant descending output and absence of a re-entrant pathway (Medina and Smeets, 1991; Mar ın et al. 1998a,b; Reiner, 2002).
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