Branch specific and spike-order specific action potential invasion in basal, oblique, and apical dendrites of cortical pyramidal neurons.
Branch specific and spike-order specific action potential invasion in basal, oblique, and apical dendrites of cortical pyramidal neurons.
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皮质锥体神经元的基底树突、斜树突和顶树突中的分支特异性和尖峰顺序特异性动作电位入侵。
DOI:
10.1117/1.nph.2.2.021006
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发表时间:
2015
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影响因子:
5.3
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Antic,SrdjanD
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作者:
Zhou,Wen-Liang;Short,ShainaM;Rich,MatthewT;Oikonomou,KaterinaD;Singh,MandakiniB;Sterjanaj,EnasV;Antic,SrdjanD
In neocortical pyramidal neurons, action potentials (APs) propagate from the axon into the dendritic tree to influence distal synapses. Traditionally, AP backpropagation was studied in the thick apical trunk. Here, we used the principles of optical imaging developed by Cohen to investigate AP invasion into thin dendritic branches (basal, oblique, and tuft) of prefrontal cortical L5 pyramidal neurons. Multisite optical recordings from neighboring dendrites revealed a clear dichotomy between two seemingly equal dendritic branches belonging to the same cell (“sister branches”). We documented the variable efficacy of AP invasion in basal and oblique branches by revealing their AP voltage waveforms. Using fast multisite calcium imaging, we found that trains of APs are filtered differently between two apical tuft branches. Although one dendritic branch passes all spikes in an AP train, another branch belonging to the same neuron, same cortical layer, and same path distance from the cell body, experiences only one spike. Our data indicate that the vast differences in dendritic voltage and calcium transients, detected in dendrites of pyramidal neurons, arise from a nonuniform distribution of A-typeconductance, an aggregate number of branch points in the path of the AP propagation and minute differences in dendritic diameter.