期刊
BRAIN RESEARCH
卷 1648, 期 -, 页码 110-118出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2016.07.030
关键词
Motoneuron; High-conductance state; Spike frequency adaptation; Frequency-current relationship; Gain; Action potential threshold
资金
- Research Council of Lithuania [MIP-048/2013]
- Lundbeck Foundation
During functional spinal neural network activity motoneurons receive massive synaptic excitation and inhibition, and their membrane conductance increases considerably they are switched to a high-conductance state. High-conductance states can substantially alter response properties of motoneurons. In the present study we investigated how an increase in membrane conductance affects spike frequency adaptation, the gain (i.e., the slope of the frequency-current relationship) and the threshold for action potential generation. We used intracellular recordings from adult turtle motoneurons in spinal cord slices. Membrane conductance was increased pharmacologically by extracellular application of the GABA(A) receptor agonist muscimol. Our findings suggest that an increase in membrane conductance of about 40-50% increases the magnitude of spike frequency adaptation, but does not change the threshold for action potential generation. Increased conductance causes a subtractive rather than a divisive effect on the initial and the early frequency-current relationships and may have not only a subtractive but also a divisive effect on the steady-state frequency-current relationship. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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