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JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
Volume 104, Issue 4, Pages 2063-2074Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00474.2010
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- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders [R01 DC-008125]
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Chanda S, Xu-Friedman MA. Neuromodulation by GABA converts a relay into a coincidence detector. J Neurophysiol 104: 2063-2074, 2010. First published August 11, 2010; doi:10.1152/jn.00474.2010. Modulation of synaptic strength by gamma-aminobutyric acid receptors (GABARs) is a common feature in sensory pathways that contain relay cell types. However, the functional impact of these receptors on information processing is not clear. We considered this issue at bushy cells (BCs) in the cochlear nucleus, which relay auditory nerve (AN) activity to higher centers. BCs express GABA(A)Rs, and synaptic inputs to BCs express GABA(B)Rs. We tested the effects of GABAR activation on the relaying of AN activity using patch-clamp recordings in mature mouse brain slices at 34 degrees C. GABA affected BC firing in response to trains of AN activity at concentrations as low as 10 mu M. GABA(A)Rs reduced firing primarily late in high-frequency trains, whereas GABA(B)Rs reduced firing early and in low-frequency trains. BC firing was significantly restored when two converging AN inputs were activated simultaneously, with maximal effect over a window of < 0.5 ms. Thus GABA could adjust the function of BCs, to suppress the relaying of individual inputs and require coincident activity of multiple inputs.
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