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FRONTIERS IN NEURAL CIRCUITS
卷 8, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
FRONTIERS RESEARCH FOUNDATION
DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2014.00090
关键词
inferior olive; nucleo-olivary pathway; complex spikes; purkinje cells; in vivo electrophysiology; eyeblink conditioning; oscillations; interstimulus interval
资金
- Swedish Research Council
- Communication and Learning at Lund University [349-2007-8695, 09899]
- Soderberg, Krapperup and Ahlen foundations
The cerebellar cortex is necessary for adaptively timed conditioned responses (CRs) in eyeblink conditioning. During conditioning, Purkinje cells acquire pause responses or Purkinje cell CRs to the conditioned stimuli (CS), resulting in disinhibition of the cerebellar nuclei (CN), allowing them to activate motor nuclei that control eyeblink. This disinhibition also causes inhibition of the inferior olive (IO), via the nucleo-olivary pathway (N-O). Activation of the IO, which relays the unconditional stimulus (US) to the cortex, elicits characteristic complex spikes in Purkinje cells. Although Purkinje cell activity, as well as stimulation of the CN, is known to influence IO activity, much remains to be learned about the way that learned charges in simple spike firing affects the IO. In the present study, we analyzed changes in simple and complex spike firing, an extracellular Purkinje cell records, from the C3 zone, in decerebrate ferrets undergoing training in a conditioning paradigm. In agreement with the N-O feedback hypothesis, acquisition resulted in a gradual decrease in complex spike activity during the conditioned stimulus, with a delay that is consistent with the long N-O latency. Also supporting the feedback hypothesis, training with a short interstimulus interval (ISI), which does not lead to acquisition of a Purkinje cell CR, did not cause a suppression of complex spike activity. In contrast, observations that extinction did not lead to a recovery in complex spike activity and the irregular patterns of simple and complex spike activity after the conditioned stimulus are less conclusive.
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