Hormonal modulation of sensorimotor integration.
Hormonal modulation of sensorimotor integration.
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DOI:
10.1523/jneurosci.5533-09.2010
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发表时间:
2010-02-17
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Nusbaum MP
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DeLong ND;Nusbaum MP
Neuronal circuits commonly receive simultaneous inputs from descending, ascending and hormonal systems. Thus far, however, most such inputs have been studied individually to determine their influence on a given circuit. Here, we examine the integrated action of the hormone crustacean cardioactive peptide (CCAP) and the gastropyloric receptor (GPR) proprioceptor neuron on the biphasic gastric mill (chewing) rhythm driven by the projection neuron MCN1 (modulatory commissural neuron 1) in the isolated crab stomatogastric ganglion. In control saline, GPR stimulation selectively prolongs the gastric mill retractor phase, via presynaptic inhibition of MCN1. In the absence of GPR stimulation, CCAP does not alter retraction duration and modestly prolongs protraction. Here we show, using computational modeling and dynamic clamp manipulations, that the presence of CCAP weakens or eliminates the GPR effect on the gastric mill rhythm. This CCAP action results from its ability to activate the same modulator-activated conductance (GMI) as MCN1 in the gastric mill circuit neuron lateral gastric (LG). Because GPR prolongs retraction by weakening MCN1 activation of GMI in LG, the parallel GMI activation by CCAP reduces the impact of GPR regulation of this conductance. The CCAP-activated GMI thus counteracts the GPR-mediated decrease in the MCN1-activated GMI in LG and reduces the GPR ability to regulate the gastric mill rhythm. Consequently, although CCAP neither changes retraction duration nor alters GPR inhibition of MCN1, its activation of a modulator-activated conductance in a pivotal downstream circuit neuron enables CCAP to weaken or eliminate sensory regulation of motor circuit output.