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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
卷 104, 期 27, 页码 11477-11482出版社
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0704832104
关键词
chloride homeostasis; facilitation; inhibition; synaptic integration
资金
- Intramural NIH HHS Funding Source: Medline
The inhibitory action of glycine and GABA in adult neurons consists of both shunting incoming excitations and moving the membrane potential away from the action potential (AP) threshold. By contrast, in immature neurons, inhibitory postsynaptic potentials (IPSPs) are depolarizing; it is generally accepted that, despite their depolarizing action, these IPSPs are inhibitory because of the shunting action of the Cl- conductance increase. Here we investigated the integration of depolarizing IPSPs (dIPSPs) with excitatory inputs in the neonatal rodent spinal cord by means of both intracellular recordings from lumbar motoneurons and a simulation using the compartment model program Neuron. We show that the ability of IPSPs to suppress suprathreshold excitatory events depends on E-cl, and the location of inhibitory synapses. The depolarization outlasts the conductance changes and spreads electrotonically in the somatodendritic tree, whereas the shunting effect is restricted and local. As a consequence, dIPSPs facilitated AP generation by subthreshold excitatory events in the late phase of the response. The window of facilitation became wider as E-cl was more depolarized and started earlier as inhibitory synapses were moved away from the excitatory input. GAD65/67 immunohistochemstry demonstrated the existence of distal inhibitory synapses on motoneurons in the neonatal rodent spinal cord. This study demonstrates that mall dIPSPs can either inhibitor facilitate excitatory inputs depending on timing and location. Our results raise the possibility that inhibitory synapses exert a facilitatory action on distant excitatory inputs and slight changes of Ecl may have important consequences for network processing.
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