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JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
卷 29, 期 36, 页码 11246-11256出版社
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3260-09.2009
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- Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Association Francaise contre les Myopathies [MNM2 2009, 14229]
- National Institutes of Health-National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke [NS05462]
- Fondation pour la Recherche Medicale
- Milton Safenowitz Post Doctoral Fellowship
The fast contraction time of mouse motor units creates a unique situation in which motoneurons have to fire at low frequencies to produce small forces but also at very high frequency (much higher than in cat or rat motoneurons) to reach the fusion frequency of their motor units. To understand how this problem is solved, we performed intracellular recordings of adult mouse spinal motoneurons and investigated systematically their subthreshold properties and their discharge pattern. We show that mouse motoneurons have a much wider range of firing frequencies than cat and rat motoneurons because of three salient features. First, they have a short membrane time constant. This results in a higher cutoff frequency and a higher resonance frequency, which allow mouse motoneurons to integrate inputs at higher frequencies. Second, their after hyperpolarization (AHP) is faster, allowing the motoneurons to discharge at a higher rate. Third, motoneurons display high-frequency (100-150 Hz) subthreshold oscillations during the interspike intervals. The fast membrane kinetics greatly favors the appearance of these oscillations, creating a subprimary range of firing. In this range, which has never been reported in cat and in rat spinal motoneurons, the oscillations follow the AHP and trigger spiking after a variable delay, allowing a discharge at low frequency but at the expense of an irregular rate.
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