EXCITATORY SYNAPTIC ACTION OF CLIMBING FIBRES ON PURKINJE CELLS OF CEREBELLUM
EXCITATORY SYNAPTIC ACTION OF CLIMBING FIBRES ON PURKINJE CELLS OF CEREBELLUM
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DOI:
10.1113/jphysiol.1966.sp007824
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发表时间:
1966-01-01
影响因子:
5.5
通讯作者:
SASAKI, K
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作者:
ECCLES, JC;LLINAS, R;SASAKI, K
Stimulation in the accessory olive of the cat selectively excites fibers that have a powerful synaptic excitatory action on Purkinje cells in the contralateral vermis, evoking a repetitive spike discharge of 5-7 msec duration. Almost invariably this response had an all-or-nothing character. In every respect it corresponds with the synaptic action that is to be expected from climbing fibers. Intracellular recording from Purkinje cells reveals that this climbing fiber stimulation evokes a large unitary depolarization with an initial spike and later partial spike responses superimposed on a sustained depolarization. Typical climbing fiber responses can be excited, but in a much less selective manner, by stimulation of the olive-cerebellar pathway in the region of the fastigial nucleus, there being often a preceding antidromic spike potential of the Purkinje cell. Impaled Purkinje cells rapidly deteriorate with loss of all spike discharge, the climbing fiber response being then reduced to an excitatory post-synaptic potential. This potential shows that stimulation of the inferior olive may evoke 2 or more discharges at about 2 msec intervals in the same climbing fiber. The complexity of neuronal connexions in the inferior olive is also indicated by the considerable latency range in responses. With stimulation in the region of the fastigial nucleus, the initial direct climbing fiber response is often followed by a reflex discharge, presumably from the inferior olive, which resembles the responses produced by inferior olive stimulation in being often repetitive. Typical climbing fiber responses have been evoked by peripheral nerve stimulation and frequently occur spontaneously. The responses evoked by climbing fibers in the individual Purkinje cells can account for the potential fields that an inferior olive stimulus evokes on the surface and through the depth of the cere-bellar cortex. By the application of currents through the recording intracellular electrode it has been possible to effect large changes in the excitatory post-synaptic potential produced by a climbing fiber, it being diminished and even reversed with depolarizing currents and greatly increased by hyperpolarizing currents.