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JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON
卷 566, 期 2, 页码 425-441出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2005.089086
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- NIAAA NIH HHS [R01 AA012952, AA12952] Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [TS GM08151-8, T32 GM008151] Funding Source: Medline
- NINDS NIH HHS [R01 NS040488, NS40488, F31 NS47933-01A1, F31 NS047933] Funding Source: Medline
Although action potential initiation and propagation are fundamental to nervous system function, there are few direct electrophysiological observations of propagating action potentials in small unmyelinated fibres, such as the axons within mammalian hippocampus. To circumvent limitations of previous studies that relied on extracellular stimulation, we performed dual recordings: whole-cell recordings from hippocampal CA3 pyramidal cell somas and extracellular recordings from their axons, up to 800 mu m away. During brief spike trains under normal conditions, axonal spikes were more resistant to amplitude reduction than somatic spikes. Axonal amplitude depression was greatest at the axon initial segment <150 mu m from the soma, and initiation occurred similar to 75 mu m from the soma. Although prior studies, which failed to verify spike initiation, suggested substantial axonal depression during seizure-associated extracellular K+ ([K+](o)) rises, we found that 8 mM [K+](o) caused relatively small decreases in axonal spike amplitude during brief spike trains. However, during sustained, epileptiform spiking induced in 8 mM [K+](o), axonal waveforms decreased significantly in peak amplitude. During epileptiform spiking, bursts of two or more action potentials >20 Hz failed to propagate in most cases. In normal [K+](o) at 25 and 32 degrees C, spiking superimposed on sustained somatic depolarization, but not spiking alone, produced similar axonal changes as the epileptiform activity. These results highlight the likely importance of steady-state inactivation of axonal channels in maintaining action potential fidelity. Such changes in axonal propagation properties could encode information and/or serve as an endogenous brake on seizure propagation.
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