CLIMBING FIBER INDUCED DEPRESSION OF BOTH MOSSY FIBER RESPONSIVENESS AND GLUTAMATE SENSITIVITY OF CEREBELLAR PURKINJE-CELLS
CLIMBING FIBER INDUCED DEPRESSION OF BOTH MOSSY FIBER RESPONSIVENESS AND GLUTAMATE SENSITIVITY OF CEREBELLAR PURKINJE-CELLS
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DOI:
10.1113/jphysiol.1982.sp014103
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发表时间:
1982-01-01
影响因子:
5.5
通讯作者:
TONGROACH, P
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作者:
ITO, M;SAKURAI, M;TONGROACH, P
In decerebrate rabbits, cells were sampled extracellularly from the rostral flocculus. Purkinje cells were identified by their characteristic responses to stimulation of the contralateral inferior olive. Identification of basket cells was based on the absence of olivary responses and also on their location in the molecular layer adjacent to identified Purkinje cells. Mass field potentials in the flocculus were also studied. Single pulse stimulation of a vestibular nerve, either ipsilateral or contralateral, at a rate of 2/s excited Purkinje cells with a latency of 3-6 ms. This early excitation represents activation through vestibular mossy fibers, granule cells and their axons (parallel fibers). Similar early excitation also occurred in putative basket cells. Conjunctive stimulation of a vestibular nerve at 20/s and the inferior olive at 4/s, for 25 s/trial, effectively depressed the early excitation of Purkinje cells by that nerve, without an associated change in spontaneous discharge. The depression recovered in .apprx. 10 min. This recovery was followed by the onset of a slow depression lasting for 1 h. Conjunctive vestibular-olivary stimulation produced no such depression in the Purkinje cell responses. Ionophoretic application of glutamate to Purkinje cells in conjunction with 4/s olivary stimulation depressed the glutamate sensitivity of Purkinje cells; aspartate sensitivity was depressed to a much lesser degree. The depression diminished in .apprx. 10 min, but this recovery was succeeded by a slow depression lasting for 1 h. The depression was seen only when glutamate sensitivity was relatively high, suggesting that the micro-electrode was impinging onto Purkinje cell dendrites. Subsynaptic chemosensitivity of Purkinje cells to the putative neurotransmitter of parallel fibers is involved in the depression observed after conjunctive stimulation of a vestibular nerve and the inferior olive.