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Rasia-Filho AA, Guerra KTK, Vásquez CE, Dall’Oglio A, Reberger R, Jung CR, Calcagnotto ME. The Subcortical-Allocortical- Neocortical continuum for the Emergence and Morphological Heterogeneity of Pyramidal Neurons in the Human Brain. Front Synaptic Neurosci 2021; 13:616607. [PMID: 33776739 PMCID: PMC7991104 DOI: 10.3389/fnsyn.2021.616607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2020] [Accepted: 02/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Human cortical and subcortical areas integrate emotion, memory, and cognition when interpreting various environmental stimuli for the elaboration of complex, evolved social behaviors. Pyramidal neurons occur in developed phylogenetic areas advancing along with the allocortex to represent 70-85% of the neocortical gray matter. Here, we illustrate and discuss morphological features of heterogeneous spiny pyramidal neurons emerging from specific amygdaloid nuclei, in CA3 and CA1 hippocampal regions, and in neocortical layers II/III and V of the anterolateral temporal lobe in humans. Three-dimensional images of Golgi-impregnated neurons were obtained using an algorithm for the visualization of the cell body, dendritic length, branching pattern, and pleomorphic dendritic spines, which are specialized plastic postsynaptic units for most excitatory inputs. We demonstrate the emergence and development of human pyramidal neurons in the cortical and basomedial (but not the medial, MeA) nuclei of the amygdala with cells showing a triangular cell body shape, basal branched dendrites, and a short apical shaft with proximal ramifications as "pyramidal-like" neurons. Basomedial neurons also have a long and distally ramified apical dendrite not oriented to the pial surface. These neurons are at the beginning of the allocortex and the limbic lobe. "Pyramidal-like" to "classic" pyramidal neurons with laminar organization advance from the CA3 to the CA1 hippocampal regions. These cells have basal and apical dendrites with specific receptive synaptic domains and several spines. Neocortical pyramidal neurons in layers II/III and V display heterogeneous dendritic branching patterns adapted to the space available and the afferent inputs of each brain area. Dendritic spines vary in their distribution, density, shapes, and sizes (classified as stubby/wide, thin, mushroom-like, ramified, transitional forms, "atypical" or complex forms, such as thorny excrescences in the MeA and CA3 hippocampal region). Spines were found isolated or intermingled, with evident particularities (e.g., an extraordinary density in long, deep CA1 pyramidal neurons), and some showing a spinule. We describe spiny pyramidal neurons considerably improving the connectional and processing complexity of the brain circuits. On the other hand, these cells have some vulnerabilities, as found in neurodegenerative Alzheimer's disease and in temporal lobe epilepsy.
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- Alberto A. Rasia-Filho
- Department of Basic Sciences/Physiology and Graduate Program in Biosciences, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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- Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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- Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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- Department of Basic Sciences/Physiology and Graduate Program in Biosciences, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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- Medical Engineering Program, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Institute of Informatics, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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- Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Neurophysiology and Neurochemistry of Neuronal Excitability and Synaptic Plasticity Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and Biochemistry Graduate Program, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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Noguchi A, Ikegaya Y, Matsumoto N. In Vivo Whole-Cell Patch-Clamp Methods: Recent Technical Progress and Future Perspectives. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2021; 21:1448. [PMID: 33669656 PMCID: PMC7922023 DOI: 10.3390/s21041448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2020] [Revised: 02/12/2021] [Accepted: 02/16/2021] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Brain functions are fundamental for the survival of organisms, and they are supported by neural circuits consisting of a variety of neurons. To investigate the function of neurons at the single-cell level, researchers often use whole-cell patch-clamp recording techniques. These techniques enable us to record membrane potentials (including action potentials) of individual neurons of not only anesthetized but also actively behaving animals. This whole-cell recording method enables us to reveal how neuronal activities support brain function at the single-cell level. In this review, we introduce previous studies using in vivo patch-clamp recording techniques and recent findings primarily regarding neuronal activities in the hippocampus for behavioral function. We further discuss how we can bridge the gap between electrophysiology and biochemistry.
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- Asako Noguchi
- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan; (A.N.); (Y.I.)
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- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan; (A.N.); (Y.I.)
- Institute for AI and Beyond, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
- Center for Information and Neural Networks, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Suita City, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan; (A.N.); (Y.I.)
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Doostdar N, Airey J, Radulescu CI, Melgosa-Ecenarro L, Zabouri N, Pavlidi P, Kopanitsa M, Saito T, Saido T, Barnes SJ. Multi-scale network imaging in a mouse model of amyloidosis. Cell Calcium 2021; 95:102365. [PMID: 33610083 DOI: 10.1016/j.ceca.2021.102365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2020] [Revised: 01/22/2021] [Accepted: 01/24/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The adult neocortex is not hard-wired but instead retains the capacity to reorganise across multiple spatial scales long into adulthood. Plastic reorganisation occurs at the level of mesoscopic sensory maps, functional neuronal assemblies and synaptic ensembles and is thought to be a critical feature of neuronal network function. Here, we describe a series of approaches that use calcium imaging to measure network reorganisation across multiple spatial scales in vivo. At the mesoscopic level, we demonstrate that sensory activity can be measured in animals undergoing longitudinal behavioural assessment involving automated touchscreen tasks. At the cellular level, we show that network dynamics can be longitudinally measured at both stable and transient functional assemblies. At the level of single synapses, we show that functional subcellular calcium imaging approaches can be used to measure synaptic ensembles of dendritic spines in vivo. Finally, we demonstrate that all three levels of imaging can be spatially related to local pathology in a preclinical rodent model of amyloidosis. We propose that multi-scale in vivo calcium imaging can be used to measure parallel plasticity processes operating across multiple spatial scales in both the healthy brain and preclinical models of disease.
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- Nazanin Doostdar
- UK Dementia Research Institute, Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital Campus, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0NN, United Kingdom
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- UK Dementia Research Institute, Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital Campus, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0NN, United Kingdom
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- UK Dementia Research Institute, Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital Campus, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0NN, United Kingdom
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- UK Dementia Research Institute, Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital Campus, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0NN, United Kingdom
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- UK Dementia Research Institute, Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital Campus, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0NN, United Kingdom
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- UK Dementia Research Institute, Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital Campus, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0NN, United Kingdom
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- UK Dementia Research Institute, Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital Campus, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0NN, United Kingdom
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- Department of Neurocognitive Science, Institute of Brain Science, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Aichi, 467-8601, Japan
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- Laboratory for Proteolytic Neuroscience, RIKEN Centre for Brain Science, Wako-shi, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan
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- UK Dementia Research Institute, Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital Campus, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0NN, United Kingdom.
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Iijima K, Oshima T, Kawakami R, Nemoto T. Optical clearing of living brains with MAGICAL to extend i n vivo imaging. iScience 2021; 24:101888. [PMID: 33364578 PMCID: PMC7750414 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2020.101888] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2020] [Revised: 10/02/2020] [Accepted: 11/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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To understand brain functions, it is important to observe directly how multiple neural circuits are performing in living brains. However, due to tissue opaqueness, observable depth and spatiotemporal resolution are severely degraded in vivo. Here, we propose an optical brain clearing method for in vivo fluorescence microscopy, termed MAGICAL (magical additive glycerol improves clear alive luminance). MAGICAL enabled two-photon microscopy to capture vivid images with fast speed, at cortical layer V and hippocampal CA1 in vivo. Moreover, MAGICAL promoted conventional confocal microscopy to visualize finer neuronal structures including synaptic boutons and spines in unprecedented deep regions, without intensive illumination leading to phototoxic effects. Fluorescence emission spectrum transmissive analysis showed that MAGICAL improved in vivo transmittance of shorter wavelength light, which is vulnerable to optical scattering, thus unsuited for in vivo microscopy. These results suggest that MAGICAL would transparentize living brains via scattering reduction. Oral glycerol administration (MAGICAL) enhances fluorescent signals in living brains MAGICAL achieves in vivo optical clearing for living brains via scattering reduction MAGICAL enables in vivo microscopy to observe brains faster, deeper, and more finely
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- Kouichirou Iijima
- Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, N20W10, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 001-0020, Japan
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- Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, N14W9, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0814, Japan
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- Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, N20W10, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 001-0020, Japan.,Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, N14W9, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0814, Japan
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- Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, N20W10, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 001-0020, Japan.,Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, N14W9, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0814, Japan.,Division of Biophotonics, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Higashiyama 5-1, Myodaiji, Okazaki 444-0865, Aichi, Japan.,Biophotonics Research Group, Research Center on Life and Living Systems (ExCELLS), National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Higashiyama 5-1, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8787, Japan.,School of Life Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Higashiyama 5-1, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8787, Japan
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Heterosynaptic cross-talk of pre- and postsynaptic strengths along segments of dendrites. Cell Rep 2021; 34:108693. [PMID: 33503435 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.108693] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2020] [Revised: 08/13/2020] [Accepted: 01/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Dendrites are crucial for integrating incoming synaptic information. Individual dendritic branches are thought to constitute a signal processing unit, yet how neighboring synapses shape the boundaries of functional dendritic units is not well understood. Here, we address the cellular basis underlying the organization of the strengths of neighboring Schaffer collateral-CA1 synapses by optical quantal analysis and spine size measurements. Inducing potentiation at clusters of spines produces NMDA-receptor-dependent heterosynaptic plasticity. The direction of postsynaptic strength change shows distance dependency to the stimulated synapses where proximal synapses predominantly depress, whereas distal synapses potentiate; potentiation and depression are regulated by CaMKII and calcineurin, respectively. In contrast, heterosynaptic presynaptic plasticity is confined to weakening of presynaptic strength of nearby synapses, which requires CaMKII and the retrograde messenger nitric oxide. Our findings highlight the parallel engagement of multiple signaling pathways, each with characteristic spatial dynamics in shaping the local pattern of synaptic strengths.
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Lu J, Zuo Y. Shedding light on learning and memory: optical interrogation of the synaptic circuitry. Curr Opin Neurobiol 2020; 67:138-144. [PMID: 33279804 DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2020.10.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2020] [Revised: 10/16/2020] [Accepted: 10/18/2020] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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In the quest for the physical substrate of learning and memory, a consensus gradually emerges that memory traces are stored in specific neuronal populations and the synaptic circuits that connect them. In this review, we discuss recent progresses in understanding the reorganization of synaptic circuits and neuronal assemblies associated with learning and memory, with an emphasis on optical techniques for in vivo interrogations. We also highlight some open questions on the missing link between synaptic modifications and neuronal coding, and how stable memory persists despite synaptic and neuronal fluctuations.
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- Ju Lu
- Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
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Aime M, Augusto E, Kouskoff V, Campelo T, Martin C, Humeau Y, Chenouard N, Gambino F. The integration of Gaussian noise by long-range amygdala inputs in frontal circuit promotes fear learning in mice. eLife 2020; 9:62594. [PMID: 33252331 PMCID: PMC7704104 DOI: 10.7554/elife.62594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2020] [Accepted: 11/17/2020] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Survival depends on the ability of animals to select the appropriate behavior in response to threat and safety sensory cues. However, the synaptic and circuit mechanisms by which the brain learns to encode accurate predictors of threat and safety remain largely unexplored. Here, we show that frontal association cortex (FrA) pyramidal neurons of mice integrate auditory cues and basolateral amygdala (BLA) inputs non-linearly in a NMDAR-dependent manner. We found that the response of FrA pyramidal neurons was more pronounced to Gaussian noise than to pure frequency tones, and that the activation of BLA-to-FrA axons was the strongest in between conditioning pairings. Blocking BLA-to-FrA signaling specifically at the time of presentation of Gaussian noise (but not 8 kHz tone) between conditioning trials impaired the formation of auditory fear memories. Taken together, our data reveal a circuit mechanism that facilitates the formation of fear traces in the FrA, thus providing a new framework for probing discriminative learning and related disorders.
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- Mattia Aime
- University of Bordeaux, CNRS, Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, IINS, Bordeaux, France
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- University of Bordeaux, CNRS, Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, IINS, Bordeaux, France
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- University of Bordeaux, CNRS, Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, IINS, Bordeaux, France
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- University of Bordeaux, CNRS, Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, IINS, Bordeaux, France
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- University of Bordeaux, CNRS, Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, IINS, Bordeaux, France
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- University of Bordeaux, CNRS, Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, IINS, Bordeaux, France
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- University of Bordeaux, CNRS, Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, IINS, Bordeaux, France
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- University of Bordeaux, CNRS, Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, IINS, Bordeaux, France
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Royer J, Huetz C, Occelli F, Cancela JM, Edeline JM. Enhanced Discriminative Abilities of Auditory Cortex Neurons for Pup Calls Despite Reduced Evoked Responses in C57BL/6 Mother Mice. Neuroscience 2020; 453:1-16. [PMID: 33253823 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2020.11.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2020] [Revised: 11/03/2020] [Accepted: 11/18/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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A fundamental task for the auditory system is to process communication sounds according to their behavioral significance. In many mammalian species, pup calls became more significant for mothers than other conspecific and heterospecific communication sounds. To study the cortical consequences of motherhood on the processing of communication sounds, we recorded neuronal responses in the primary auditory cortex of virgin and mother C57BL/6 mice which had similar ABR thresholds. In mothers, the evoked firing rate in response to pure tones was decreased and the frequency receptive fields were narrower. The responses to pup and adult calls were also reduced but the amount of mutual information (MI) per spike about the pup call's identity was increased in mother mice. The response latency to pup and adult calls was significantly shorter in mothers. Despite similarly decreased responses to guinea pig whistles, the response latency, and the MI per spike did not differ between virgins and mothers for these heterospecific vocalizations. Noise correlations between cortical recordings were decreased in mothers, suggesting that the firing rate of distant neurons was more independent from each other. Together, these results indicate that in the most commonly used mouse strain for behavioral studies, the discrimination of pup calls by auditory cortex neurons is more efficient during motherhood.
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- Juliette Royer
- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS UMR 9197, Institut des neurosciences Paris-Saclay, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France; Institut des neurosciences Paris-Saclay, CNRS, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS UMR 9197, Institut des neurosciences Paris-Saclay, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France; Institut des neurosciences Paris-Saclay, CNRS, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS UMR 9197, Institut des neurosciences Paris-Saclay, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France; Institut des neurosciences Paris-Saclay, CNRS, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS UMR 9197, Institut des neurosciences Paris-Saclay, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France; Institut des neurosciences Paris-Saclay, CNRS, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS UMR 9197, Institut des neurosciences Paris-Saclay, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France; Institut des neurosciences Paris-Saclay, CNRS, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
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Pre-Brodmann pioneers of cortical cytoarchitectonics II: Carl Hammarberg, Alfred Walter Campbell and Grafton Elliot Smith. Brain Struct Funct 2020; 225:2591-2614. [PMID: 33141293 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-020-02166-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2020] [Accepted: 10/17/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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The present study and the preceding paper revisit landmark discoveries that paved the way to the definition of the renowned Brodmann areas in the human cerebral cortex, in an attempt to rectify certain undeserved historical neglects. A 'second period of discoveries', from 1893 to 1908, is marked by the work of Carl Hammarberg (1865-1893) in Uppsala, Alfred Walter Campbell (1868-1937) in Liverpool and Grafton Elliot Smith (1871-1937) in Cairo. Their classical findings are placed in a modern perspective.
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Gobbo F, Cattaneo A. Neuronal Activity at Synapse Resolution: Reporters and Effectors for Synaptic Neuroscience. Front Mol Neurosci 2020; 13:572312. [PMID: 33192296 PMCID: PMC7609880 DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2020.572312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2020] [Accepted: 08/31/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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The development of methods for the activity-dependent tagging of neurons enabled a new way to tackle the problem of engram identification at the cellular level, giving rise to groundbreaking findings in the field of memory studies. However, the resolution of activity-dependent tagging remains limited to the whole-cell level. Notably, events taking place at the synapse level play a critical role in the establishment of new memories, and strong experimental evidence shows that learning and synaptic plasticity are tightly linked. Here, we provide a comprehensive review of the currently available techniques that enable to identify and track the neuronal activity with synaptic spatial resolution. We also present recent technologies that allow to selectively interfere with specific subsets of synapses. Lastly, we discuss how these technologies can be applied to the study of learning and memory.
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- Francesco Gobbo
- Bio@SNS Laboratory of Biology, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
- Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Bio@SNS Laboratory of Biology, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
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Scholl B, Fitzpatrick D. Cortical synaptic architecture supports flexible sensory computations. Curr Opin Neurobiol 2020; 64:41-45. [PMID: 32088662 PMCID: PMC8080306 DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2020.01.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2019] [Revised: 01/17/2020] [Accepted: 01/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Establishing the fundamental principles that underlie the integration of excitatory and inhibitory presynaptic input populations is crucial to understanding how individual cortical neurons transform signals from peripheral receptors. Here we review recent studies using novel tools to examine the functional properties of excitatory synaptic inputs and the tuning of excitation and inhibition onto individual neurons. New evidence challenges existing synaptic connectivity rules and suggests a more complex functional synaptic architecture that supports a broad range of operations, enabling single neurons to encode multiple sensory features and flexibly shape their computations in the face of diverse sensory input.
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- Benjamin Scholl
- Max Planck Florida Institute, 1 Max Planck Way, Jupiter, FL USA.
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Wang M, Liao X, Li R, Liang S, Ding R, Li J, Zhang J, He W, Liu K, Pan J, Zhao Z, Li T, Zhang K, Li X, Lyu J, Zhou Z, Varga Z, Mi Y, Zhou Y, Yan J, Zeng S, Liu JK, Konnerth A, Nelken I, Jia H, Chen X. Single-neuron representation of learned complex sounds in the auditory cortex. Nat Commun 2020; 11:4361. [PMID: 32868773 PMCID: PMC7459331 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18142-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2020] [Accepted: 08/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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The sensory responses of cortical neuronal populations following training have been extensively studied. However, the spike firing properties of individual cortical neurons following training remain unknown. Here, we have combined two-photon Ca2+ imaging and single-cell electrophysiology in awake behaving mice following auditory associative training. We find a sparse set (~5%) of layer 2/3 neurons in the primary auditory cortex, each of which reliably exhibits high-rate prolonged burst firing responses to the trained sound. Such bursts are largely absent in the auditory cortex of untrained mice. Strikingly, in mice trained with different multitone chords, we discover distinct subsets of neurons that exhibit bursting responses specifically to a chord but neither to any constituent tone nor to the other chord. Thus, our results demonstrate an integrated representation of learned complex sounds in a small subset of cortical neurons. Using a combination of two-photon imaging and single-cell electrophysiology, the authors discover that associative learning induces the emergence of a unique subset of neurons in the auditory cortex, exhibiting high-rate bursting responses to the learned complex sounds but not to any of the constituents.
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- Meng Wang
- Brain Research Center and State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns, and Combined Injury, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, 400038, China.,Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics-Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Key Laboratory for Biomedical Photonics of Ministry of Education, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China
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- Center for Neurointelligence, School of Medicine, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400030, China.
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- Brain Research Center and State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns, and Combined Injury, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, 400038, China
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- Brain Research Center and State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns, and Combined Injury, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, 400038, China
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- Brain Research Center and State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns, and Combined Injury, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, 400038, China
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- Brain Research Center and State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns, and Combined Injury, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, 400038, China
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- Brain Research Center and State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns, and Combined Injury, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, 400038, China
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- Brain Research Center and State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns, and Combined Injury, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, 400038, China
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- Brain Research Center and State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns, and Combined Injury, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, 400038, China
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- Brain Research Center and State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns, and Combined Injury, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, 400038, China
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- Brain Research Center and State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns, and Combined Injury, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, 400038, China
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- Brain Research Center and State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns, and Combined Injury, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, 400038, China
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- Brain Research Center and State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns, and Combined Injury, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, 400038, China
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- Brain Research Center and State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns, and Combined Injury, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, 400038, China.,Center for Neurointelligence, School of Medicine, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400030, China
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- Brain Research Instrument Innovation Center, Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou, 215163, China
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- Brain Research Instrument Innovation Center, Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou, 215163, China
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- Institute of Neuroscience and the SyNergy Cluster, Technical University Munich, 80802, Munich, Germany
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- Center for Neurointelligence, School of Medicine, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400030, China
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- Advanced Institute for Brain and Intelligence, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004, China
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- Advanced Institute for Brain and Intelligence, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004, China
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- Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics-Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Key Laboratory for Biomedical Photonics of Ministry of Education, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China
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- Centre for Systems Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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- Institute of Neuroscience and the SyNergy Cluster, Technical University Munich, 80802, Munich, Germany
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- The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, and the Department of Neurobiology, Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel
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- Brain Research Instrument Innovation Center, Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou, 215163, China. .,Institute of Neuroscience and the SyNergy Cluster, Technical University Munich, 80802, Munich, Germany. .,Advanced Institute for Brain and Intelligence, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004, China.
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- Brain Research Center and State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns, and Combined Injury, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, 400038, China. .,CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200031, China.
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Limbacher T, Legenstein R. Emergence of Stable Synaptic Clusters on Dendrites Through Synaptic Rewiring. Front Comput Neurosci 2020; 14:57. [PMID: 32848681 PMCID: PMC7424032 DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2020.00057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2020] [Accepted: 05/22/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The connectivity structure of neuronal networks in cortex is highly dynamic. This ongoing cortical rewiring is assumed to serve important functions for learning and memory. We analyze in this article a model for the self-organization of synaptic inputs onto dendritic branches of pyramidal cells. The model combines a generic stochastic rewiring principle with a simple synaptic plasticity rule that depends on local dendritic activity. In computer simulations, we find that this synaptic rewiring model leads to synaptic clustering, that is, temporally correlated inputs become locally clustered on dendritic branches. This empirical finding is backed up by a theoretical analysis which shows that rewiring in our model favors network configurations with synaptic clustering. We propose that synaptic clustering plays an important role in the organization of computation and memory in cortical circuits: we find that synaptic clustering through the proposed rewiring mechanism can serve as a mechanism to protect memories from subsequent modifications on a medium time scale. Rewiring of synaptic connections onto specific dendritic branches may thus counteract the general problem of catastrophic forgetting in neural networks.
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- Institute of Theoretical Computer Science, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
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Correa-Júnior ND, Renner J, Fuentealba-Villarroel F, Hilbig A, Rasia-Filho AA. Dendritic and Spine Heterogeneity of von Economo Neurons in the Human Cingulate Cortex. Front Synaptic Neurosci 2020; 12:25. [PMID: 32733229 PMCID: PMC7360805 DOI: 10.3389/fnsyn.2020.00025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2020] [Accepted: 05/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The human cingulate cortex (CC), included in the paralimbic cortex, participates in emotion, visceral responses, attention, cognition, and social behaviors. The CC has spindle-shaped/fusiform cell body neurons in its layer V, the von Economo neurons (VENs). VENs have further developed in primates, and the characterization of human VENs can benefit from the detailed descriptions of the shape of dendrites and spines. Here, we advance this issue and studied VENs in the anterior and midcingulate cortex from four neurologically normal adult subjects. We used the thionin technique and the adapted “single-section” Golgi method for light microscopy. Three-dimensional (3D) reconstructions were carried out for the visualization of Golgi-impregnated VENs’ cell body, ascending and descending dendrites, and collateral branches. We also looked for the presence, density, and shape of spines from proximal to distal dendrites. These neurons have a similar aspect for the soma, but features of spiny dendrites evidenced a morphological heterogeneity of CC VENs. Only for the description of this continuum of shapes, we labeled the most common feature as VEN 1, which has main dendritic shafts but few branches and sparse spines. VEN 2 shows an intermediate aspect, whereas VEN 3 displays the most profuse dendritic ramification and more spines with varied shapes from proximal to distal branches. Morphometric data exemplify the dendritic features of these cells. The heterogeneity of the dendritic architecture and spines suggests additional functional implications for the synaptic and information processing in VENs in integrated networks of normal and, possibly, neurological/psychiatric conditions involving the human CC.
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- Nivaldo D Correa-Júnior
- Graduate Program in Biosciences, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre (UFCSPA), Porto Alegre, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Morphology and Physiology, Department of Basic Sciences/Physiology, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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- Department of Medical Clinics/Neurology, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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- Graduate Program in Biosciences, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre (UFCSPA), Porto Alegre, Brazil.,Laboratory of Morphology and Physiology, Department of Basic Sciences/Physiology, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil.,Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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Li M, Xu H, Chen G, Sun S, Wang Q, Liu B, Wu X, Zhou L, Chai Z, Sun X, Lu Y, Younus M, Zheng L, Zhu F, Jia H, Chen X, Wang C, Zhou Z. Impaired D2 receptor-dependent dopaminergic transmission in prefrontal cortex of awake mouse model of Parkinson's disease. Brain 2020; 142:3099-3115. [PMID: 31504219 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awz243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2019] [Revised: 06/02/2019] [Accepted: 06/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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The loss-of-function mutation in PARK7/DJ-1 is one of the most common causes of autosomal recessive Parkinson's disease, and patients carrying PARK7 mutations often exhibit both a progressive movement disorder and emotional impairment, such as anxiety. However, the causes of the emotional symptom accompanying PARK7-associated and other forms of Parkinson's disease remain largely unexplored. Using two-photon microscopic Ca2+ imaging in awake PARK7-/- and PARK7+/+ mice, we found that (i) PARK7-/- neurons in the frontal association cortex showed substantially higher circuit activity recorded as spontaneous somatic Ca2+ signals; (ii) both basal and evoked dopamine release remained intact, as determined by both electrochemical dopamine recordings and high performance liquid chromatography in vivo; (iii) D2 receptor expression was significantly decreased in postsynaptic frontal association cortical neurons, and the hyper-neuronal activity were rescued by D2 receptor intervention using either local pharmacology or viral D2 receptor over-expression; and (iv) PARK7-/- mice showed anxiety-like behaviours that were rescued by either local D2 receptor pharmacology or overexpression. Thus, for first time, we demonstrated a robust D2 receptor-dependent phenotype of individual neurons within the prefrontal cortex circuit in awake parkinsonian mice that linked with anxiety. Our work sheds light on early-onset phenotypes and the mechanisms underlying Parkinson's disease by imaging brain circuits in an awake mouse model.
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- Mingli Li
- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing, China.,Key Lab of Medical Electrophysiology, Ministry of Education, Institute of Cardiovascular Research, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Brain Research Instrument Innovation Center, Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou, China
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- Brain Research Center, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing, China.,Center for Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine, Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of the Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an China
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- State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing, China
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Parker EM, Kindja NL, Cheetham CEJ, Sweet RA. Sex differences in dendritic spine density and morphology in auditory and visual cortices in adolescence and adulthood. Sci Rep 2020; 10:9442. [PMID: 32523006 PMCID: PMC7287134 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-65942-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2019] [Accepted: 04/24/2020] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Dendritic spines are small protrusions on dendrites that endow neurons with the ability to receive and transform synaptic input. Dendritic spine number and morphology are altered as a consequence of synaptic plasticity and circuit refinement during adolescence. Dendritic spine density (DSD) is significantly different based on sex in subcortical brain regions associated with the generation of sex-specific behaviors. It is largely unknown if sex differences in DSD exist in auditory and visual brain regions and if there are sex-specific changes in DSD in these regions that occur during adolescent development. We analyzed dendritic spines in 4-week-old (P28) and 12-week-old (P84) male and female mice and found that DSD is lower in female mice due in part to fewer short stubby, long stubby and short mushroom spines. We found striking layer-specific patterns including a significant age by layer interaction and significantly decreased DSD in layer 4 from P28 to P84. Together these data support the possibility of developmental sex differences in DSD in visual and auditory regions and provide evidence of layer-specific refinement of DSD over adolescent brain development.
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- Emily M Parker
- Center for Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA
- Translational Neuroscience Program, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA
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- Translational Neuroscience Program, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA
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- Center for Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA
- Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA
- Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Pittsburgh, USA
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- Center for Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA.
- Translational Neuroscience Program, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA.
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA.
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Olefir I, Ghazaryan A, Yang H, Malekzadeh-Najafabadi J, Glasl S, Symvoulidis P, O'Leary VB, Sergiadis G, Ntziachristos V, Ovsepian SV. Spatial and Spectral Mapping and Decomposition of Neural Dynamics and Organization of the Mouse Brain with Multispectral Optoacoustic Tomography. Cell Rep 2020; 26:2833-2846.e3. [PMID: 30840901 PMCID: PMC6403416 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.02.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2018] [Revised: 01/07/2019] [Accepted: 02/04/2019] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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In traditional optical imaging, limited light penetration constrains high-resolution interrogation to tissue surfaces. Optoacoustic imaging combines the superb contrast of optical imaging with deep penetration of ultrasound, enabling a range of new applications. We used multispectral optoacoustic tomography (MSOT) for functional and structural neuroimaging in mice at resolution, depth, and specificity unattainable by other neuroimaging modalities. Based on multispectral readouts, we computed hemoglobin gradient and oxygen saturation changes related to processing of somatosensory signals in different structures along the entire subcortical-cortical axis. Using temporal correlation analysis and seed-based maps, we reveal the connectivity between cortical, thalamic, and sub-thalamic formations. With the same modality, high-resolution structural tomography of intact mouse brain was achieved based on endogenous contrasts, demonstrating near-perfect matches with anatomical features revealed by histology. These results extend the limits of noninvasive observations beyond the reach of standard high-resolution neuroimaging, verifying the suitability of MSOT for small-animal studies.
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- Ivan Olefir
- Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging (IBMI), Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Ingolstadter Landstrasse 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany; Chair of Biological Imaging, Technical University Munich, 81675 Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging (IBMI), Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Ingolstadter Landstrasse 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging (IBMI), Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Ingolstadter Landstrasse 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging (IBMI), Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Ingolstadter Landstrasse 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging (IBMI), Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Ingolstadter Landstrasse 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging (IBMI), Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Ingolstadter Landstrasse 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany; Chair of Biological Imaging, Technical University Munich, 81675 Munich, Germany
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Third Faculty of Medicine of Charles University, 11636 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging (IBMI), Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Ingolstadter Landstrasse 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany; Chair of Biological Imaging, Technical University Munich, 81675 Munich, Germany.
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- Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging (IBMI), Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Ingolstadter Landstrasse 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany; Chair of Biological Imaging, Technical University Munich, 81675 Munich, Germany; Department of Experimental Neurobiology, National Institute of Mental Health, Topolová 748, 25067 Klecany, Czech Republic; Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, Third Faculty of Medicine of Charles University, 11636 Prague, Czech Republic.
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Sato TK. Long-range connections enrich cortical computations. Neurosci Res 2020; 162:1-12. [PMID: 32470355 DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2020.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2020] [Revised: 04/28/2020] [Accepted: 05/15/2020] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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The cerebral cortex can perform powerful computations, including those involved in higher cognitive functions. Cortical processing for such computations is executed by local circuits and is further enriched by long-range connectivity. This connectivity is activated under specific conditions and modulates local processing, providing flexibility in the computational performance of the cortex. For instance, long-range connectivity in the primary visual cortex exerts facilitatory impacts when the cortex is silent but suppressive impacts when the cortex is strongly sensory-stimulated. These dual impacts can be captured by a divisive gain control model. Recent methodological advances such as optogenetics, anatomical tracing, and two-photon microscopy have enabled neuroscientists to probe the circuit and synaptic bases of long-range connectivity in detail. Here, I review a series of evidence indicating essential roles of long-range connectivity in visual and hierarchical processing involving numerous cortical areas. I also describe an overview of the challenges encountered in investigating underlying synaptic mechanisms and highlight recent technical approaches that may overcome these difficulties and provide new insights into synaptic mechanisms for cortical processing involving long-range connectivity.
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- Tatsuo K Sato
- Dept. of Physiology, Neuroscience Program, Biomedicine Discovery Inst., Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia; PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Saitama 332-0012, Japan.
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Perez-Alvarez A, Fearey BC, O'Toole RJ, Yang W, Arganda-Carreras I, Lamothe-Molina PJ, Moeyaert B, Mohr MA, Panzera LC, Schulze C, Schreiter ER, Wiegert JS, Gee CE, Hoppa MB, Oertner TG. Freeze-frame imaging of synaptic activity using SynTagMA. Nat Commun 2020; 11:2464. [PMID: 32424147 PMCID: PMC7235013 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16315-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2019] [Accepted: 04/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Information within the brain travels from neuron to neuron across billions of synapses. At any given moment, only a small subset of neurons and synapses are active, but finding the active synapses in brain tissue has been a technical challenge. Here we introduce SynTagMA to tag active synapses in a user-defined time window. Upon 395-405 nm illumination, this genetically encoded marker of activity converts from green to red fluorescence if, and only if, it is bound to calcium. Targeted to presynaptic terminals, preSynTagMA allows discrimination between active and silent axons. Targeted to excitatory postsynapses, postSynTagMA creates a snapshot of synapses active just before photoconversion. To analyze large datasets, we show how to identify and track the fluorescence of thousands of individual synapses in an automated fashion. Together, these tools provide an efficient method for repeatedly mapping active neurons and synapses in cell culture, slice preparations, and in vivo during behavior.
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- Alberto Perez-Alvarez
- Institute for Synaptic Physiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, D-20251, Germany
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- Institute for Synaptic Physiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, D-20251, Germany
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 03755, USA
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- Research Group Synaptic Wiring and Information Processing, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, D-20251, Germany
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- Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain
- Dept. of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Basque Country University, San Sebastian, Spain
- Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), San Sebastian, Spain
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- Institute for Synaptic Physiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, D-20251, Germany
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- HHMI, Janelia Farm Research Campus, Ashburn, VA, 20147, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 03755, USA
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- Institute for Synaptic Physiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, D-20251, Germany
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- Research Group Synaptic Wiring and Information Processing, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, D-20251, Germany
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- Institute for Synaptic Physiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, D-20251, Germany
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 03755, USA
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- Institute for Synaptic Physiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, D-20251, Germany.
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Karpf S, Riche CT, Di Carlo D, Goel A, Zeiger WA, Suresh A, Portera-Cailliau C, Jalali B. Spectro-temporal encoded multiphoton microscopy and fluorescence lifetime imaging at kilohertz frame-rates. Nat Commun 2020; 11:2062. [PMID: 32346060 PMCID: PMC7188897 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15618-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2019] [Accepted: 03/18/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Two-Photon Microscopy has become an invaluable tool for biological and medical research, providing high sensitivity, molecular specificity, inherent three-dimensional sub-cellular resolution and deep tissue penetration. In terms of imaging speeds, however, mechanical scanners still limit the acquisition rates to typically 10-100 frames per second. Here we present a high-speed non-linear microscope achieving kilohertz frame rates by employing pulse-modulated, rapidly wavelength-swept lasers and inertia-free beam steering through angular dispersion. In combination with a high bandwidth, single-photon sensitive detector, this enables recording of fluorescent lifetimes at speeds of 88 million pixels per second. We show high resolution, multi-modal - two-photon fluorescence and fluorescence lifetime (FLIM) - microscopy and imaging flow cytometry with a digitally reconfigurable laser, imaging system and data acquisition system. These high speeds should enable high-speed and high-throughput image-assisted cell sorting.
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- Sebastian Karpf
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computational Science, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA-90095, USA.
- Institute of Biomedical Optics (BMO), University of Luebeck, 23562, Luebeck, Germany.
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA-90095, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA-90095, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA-90095, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA-90095, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA-90095, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA-90095, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computational Science, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA-90095, USA
- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA-90095, USA
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Li Y, Ding R, Wang F, Guo C, Liu A, Wei L, Yuan S, Chen F, Hou S, Ma Z, Zhang Y, Cudmore RH, Wang X, Shen H. Transient ischemia-reperfusion induces cortical hyperactivity and AMPAR trafficking in the somatosensory cortex. Aging (Albany NY) 2020; 12:4299-4321. [PMID: 32155129 PMCID: PMC7093173 DOI: 10.18632/aging.102881] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2019] [Accepted: 02/05/2020] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
Abstract
Brain ischemia results from cardiac arrest, stroke or head trauma. The structural basis of rescuing the synaptic impairment and cortical dysfunctions induced in the stage of ischemic-reperfusion can occur if therapeutic interventions are applied in time, but the functional basis for this resilience remains elusive. Here, we explore the changes in cortical activity and a-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazole propionic acid receptor (AMPAR) GluA1 subunit in spine (sGluA1) after transient ischemia-reperfusion in vivo for 28 days. Using in vivo two-photon microscopy in the mouse somatosensory cortex, we found that the average frequency of Ca2+ transients in the spine (there was an unusual synchrony) was higher after 15 min of ischemia-reperfusion. In addition, the transient ischemia-reperfusion caused a reflective enhancement of AMPARs, which eventually restored to normal. The cortical hyperactivity (Ca2+ transients) and the increase in AMPARs were successfully blocked by an NMDA receptor antagonist. Thus, the increase of AMPARs, cortical hyperactivity and the unusual synchrony might be the reason for reperfusion injury after short-term transient ischemia.
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- Yuanyuan Li
- School of Biomedical Engineering, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
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- Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing (CIBR), Beijing, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medicine, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education of China for Neurological Disorders, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Retinal Function and Diseases, Tianjin Medical University Eye Hospital, Eye Institute and School of Optometry and Ophthalmology, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
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- Department of Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medicine, Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education of China for Neurological Disorders, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.,Division of Neurodegenerative Disorders, Co-innovation Center of Neuroregeneration, Nantong University, Nantong, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.,Research Institute of Neurology, General Hospital, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
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Ju N, Li Y, Liu F, Jiang H, Macknik SL, Martinez-Conde S, Tang S. Spatiotemporal functional organization of excitatory synaptic inputs onto macaque V1 neurons. Nat Commun 2020; 11:697. [PMID: 32019929 PMCID: PMC7000673 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-14501-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2019] [Accepted: 01/14/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The integration of synaptic inputs onto dendrites provides the basis for neuronal computation. Whereas recent studies have begun to outline the spatial organization of synaptic inputs on individual neurons, the underlying principles related to the specific neural functions are not well understood. Here we perform two-photon dendritic imaging with a genetically-encoded glutamate sensor in awake monkeys, and map the excitatory synaptic inputs on dendrites of individual V1 superficial layer neurons with high spatial and temporal resolution. We find a functional integration and trade-off between orientation-selective and color-selective inputs in basal dendrites of individual V1 neurons. Synaptic inputs on dendrites are spatially clustered by stimulus feature, but functionally scattered in multidimensional feature space, providing a potential substrate of local feature integration on dendritic branches. Furthermore, apical dendrite inputs have larger receptive fields and longer response latencies than basal dendrite inputs, suggesting a dominant role for apical dendrites in integrating feedback in visual information processing.
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- Niansheng Ju
- Peking University School of Life Sciences, 100871, Beijing, China.,Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, 100871, Beijing, China.,IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research at Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China.,Key Laboratory of Machine Perception (Ministry of Education), Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China
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- Peking University School of Life Sciences, 100871, Beijing, China.,Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, 100871, Beijing, China.,IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research at Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China.,Key Laboratory of Machine Perception (Ministry of Education), Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China
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- Peking University School of Life Sciences, 100871, Beijing, China.,Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, 100871, Beijing, China.,IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research at Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China.,Key Laboratory of Machine Perception (Ministry of Education), Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China
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- Peking University School of Life Sciences, 100871, Beijing, China.,Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, 100871, Beijing, China.,IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research at Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China.,Key Laboratory of Machine Perception (Ministry of Education), Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China
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- State University of New York, Downstate Health Sciences University, 11203, Brooklyn, NY, USA
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- State University of New York, Downstate Health Sciences University, 11203, Brooklyn, NY, USA
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- Peking University School of Life Sciences, 100871, Beijing, China. .,Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, 100871, Beijing, China. .,IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research at Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China. .,Key Laboratory of Machine Perception (Ministry of Education), Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China.
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Ali F, Kwan AC. Interpreting in vivo calcium signals from neuronal cell bodies, axons, and dendrites: a review. NEUROPHOTONICS 2020; 7:011402. [PMID: 31372367 PMCID: PMC6664352 DOI: 10.1117/1.nph.7.1.011402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2019] [Accepted: 07/02/2019] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Calcium imaging is emerging as a popular technique in neuroscience. A major reason is that intracellular calcium transients are reflections of electrical events in neurons. For example, calcium influx in the soma and axonal boutons accompanies spiking activity, whereas elevations in dendrites and dendritic spines are associated with synaptic inputs and local regenerative events. However, calcium transients have complex spatiotemporal dynamics, and since most optical methods visualize only one of the somatic, axonal, and dendritic compartments, a straightforward inference of the underlying electrical event is typically challenging. We highlight experiments that have directly calibrated in vivo calcium signals recorded using fluorescent indicators against electrophysiological events. We address commonly asked questions such as: Can calcium imaging be used to characterize neurons with high firing rates? Can the fluorescent signal report a decrease in spiking activity? What is the evidence that calcium transients in subcellular compartments correspond to distinct presynaptic axonal and postsynaptic dendritic events? By reviewing the empirical evidence and limitations, we suggest that, despite some caveats, calcium imaging is a versatile method to characterize a variety of neuronal events in vivo.
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- Farhan Ali
- Yale University, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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- Yale University, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
- Yale University, Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
- Address all correspondence to Alex C. Kwan, E-mail:
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Kastellakis G, Poirazi P. Synaptic Clustering and Memory Formation. Front Mol Neurosci 2019; 12:300. [PMID: 31866824 PMCID: PMC6908852 DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2019.00300] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2019] [Accepted: 11/25/2019] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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In the study of memory engrams, synaptic memory allocation is a newly emerged theme that focuses on how specific synapses are engaged in the storage of a given memory. Cumulating evidence from imaging and molecular experiments indicates that the recruitment of synapses that participate in the encoding and expression of memory is neither random nor uniform. A hallmark observation is the emergence of groups of synapses that share similar response properties and/or similar input properties and are located within a stretch of a dendritic branch. This grouping of synapses has been termed "synapse clustering" and has been shown to emerge in many different memory-related paradigms, as well as in in vitro studies. The clustering of synapses may emerge from synapses receiving similar input, or via many processes which allow for cross-talk between nearby synapses within a dendritic branch, leading to cooperative plasticity. Clustered synapses can act in concert to maximally exploit the nonlinear integration potential of the dendritic branches in which they reside. Their main contribution is to facilitate the induction of dendritic spikes and dendritic plateau potentials, which provide advanced computational and memory-related capabilities to dendrites and single neurons. This review focuses on recent evidence which investigates the role of synapse clustering in dendritic integration, sensory perception, learning, and memory as well as brain dysfunction. We also discuss recent theoretical work which explores the computational advantages provided by synapse clustering, leading to novel and revised theories of memory. As an eminent phenomenon during memory allocation, synapse clustering both shapes memory engrams and is also shaped by the parallel plasticity mechanisms upon which it relies.
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- Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB), Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Greece
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Ohga S, Tsukano H, Horie M, Terashima H, Nishio N, Kubota Y, Takahashi K, Hishida R, Takebayashi H, Shibuki K. Direct Relay Pathways from Lemniscal Auditory Thalamus to Secondary Auditory Field in Mice. Cereb Cortex 2019; 28:4424-4439. [PMID: 30272122 PMCID: PMC6215474 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhy234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2017] [Accepted: 09/01/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Tonotopy is an essential functional organization in the mammalian auditory cortex, and its source in the primary auditory cortex (A1) is the incoming frequency-related topographical projections from the ventral division of the medial geniculate body (MGv). However, circuits that relay this functional organization to higher-order regions such as the secondary auditory field (A2) have yet to be identified. Here, we discovered a new pathway that projects directly from MGv to A2 in mice. Tonotopy was established in A2 even when primary fields including A1 were removed, which indicates that tonotopy in A2 can be established solely by thalamic input. Moreover, the structural nature of differing thalamocortical connections was consistent with the functional organization of the target regions in the auditory cortex. Retrograde tracing revealed that the region of MGv input to a local area in A2 was broader than the region of MGv input to A1. Consistent with this anatomy, two-photon calcium imaging revealed that neuronal responses in the thalamocortical recipient layer of A2 showed wider bandwidth and greater heterogeneity of the best frequency distribution than those of A1. The current study demonstrates a new thalamocortical pathway that relays frequency information to A2 on the basis of the MGv compartmentalization.
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- Shinpei Ohga
- Department of Neurophysiology, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, 1-757 Asahimachi-dori, Chuo-ku, Niigata, Japan
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- Department of Neurophysiology, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, 1-757 Asahimachi-dori, Chuo-ku, Niigata, Japan
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- Department of Morphological Sciences, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima University, 8-35-1 Sakuragaoka, Kagoshima, Japan
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- NTT Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corporation, 3-1 Morinosato Wakamiya, Atsugi-shi, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Department of Neurophysiology, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, 1-757 Asahimachi-dori, Chuo-ku, Niigata, Japan
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Graduate School of Medicine and Dental Sciences, Niigata University, 1-757 Asahimachi-dori, Chuo-ku, Niigata, Japan
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Graduate School of Medicine and Dental Sciences, Niigata University, 1-757 Asahimachi-dori, Chuo-ku, Niigata, Japan
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- Department of Neurophysiology, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, 1-757 Asahimachi-dori, Chuo-ku, Niigata, Japan
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- Division of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Graduate School of Medicine and Dental Sciences, Niigata University, 1-757 Asahimachi-dori, Chuo-ku, Niigata, Japan
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- Department of Neurophysiology, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, 1-757 Asahimachi-dori, Chuo-ku, Niigata, Japan
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Barreto-Cordero LM, Ríos-Carrillo J, Roldán-Roldán G, Rasia-Filho AA, Flores G, Bringas ME, Briones-Aranda A, Picazo O. Cyclic changes and actions of progesterone and allopregnanolone on cognition and hippocampal basal (stratum oriens) dendritic spines of female rats. Behav Brain Res 2019; 379:112355. [PMID: 31730784 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2019.112355] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2019] [Revised: 11/11/2019] [Accepted: 11/11/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Ovarian steroids modulate the neuronal structure and function during the estrous cycle, contrasting peak effects during the proestrus cycle and low effects during the metestrus cycle. An ovariectomy (OVX) decreases gonadal hormones and tests the effects of substitutive therapies. We studied female rats with a normal estrous cycle and we also studied the effects of systemic progesterone (P4, 4.0 mg/kg) or its reduced metabolite allopregnanolone (ALLO, 4.0 mg/kg, both for 10 days) in females who had had an OVX 16.5 weeks prior to the study (long-term OVX) with the novel object recognition test (NORT) for associative memory. The dendritic shape and spine density in Golgi-impregnated basal dendrites (stratum oriens) of hippocampal pyramidal neurons was also studied. Proestrus females had a better performance than metestrus or OVX females in short-term memory (tested 1 h after the acquisition phase). Proestrus and metestrus females showed better results than OVX females for long-term memory (24 h after the initial phase). Both P4 and ALLO recovered the cognitive impairment induced by long-term OVX. Also, proestrus females had a higher density of dendritic spines than metestrus females, OVX reduced the density of spines when compared to intact females, whereas both P4 and ALLO treatments increased the dendritic spine density, number of dendritic branches along the dendritic length, and branching order compared to vehicle. These data add the dendrites of the stratum oriens as an additional site for naturally occurring changes in spine density during the estrous cycle and evidence the actions of progestins in both behavioral recovery and the structural dendritic rearrangement of hippocampal pyramidal neurons in long-term OVX female rats.
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- Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre/Physiology and Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul/Neuroscience Program, Brazil
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- Instituto de Fisiología, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico
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- Escuela Superior de Medicina, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico.
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Kerlin A, Mohar B, Flickinger D, MacLennan BJ, Dean MB, Davis C, Spruston N, Svoboda K. Functional clustering of dendritic activity during decision-making. eLife 2019; 8:46966. [PMID: 31663507 PMCID: PMC6821494 DOI: 10.7554/elife.46966] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2019] [Accepted: 09/26/2019] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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The active properties of dendrites can support local nonlinear operations, but previous imaging and electrophysiological measurements have produced conflicting views regarding the prevalence and selectivity of local nonlinearities in vivo. We imaged calcium signals in pyramidal cell dendrites in the motor cortex of mice performing a tactile decision task. A custom microscope allowed us to image the soma and up to 300 μm of contiguous dendrite at 15 Hz, while resolving individual spines. New analysis methods were used to estimate the frequency and spatial scales of activity in dendritic branches and spines. The majority of dendritic calcium transients were coincident with global events. However, task-associated calcium signals in dendrites and spines were compartmentalized by dendritic branching and clustered within branches over approximately 10 μm. Diverse behavior-related signals were intermingled and distributed throughout the dendritic arbor, potentially supporting a large learning capacity in individual neurons.
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- Aaron Kerlin
- Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, United States
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- Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, United States
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- Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, United States
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- Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, United States
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- Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, United States
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- Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, United States
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- Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, United States
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- Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, United States
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Vadakkan KI. From cells to sensations: A window to the physics of mind. Phys Life Rev 2019; 31:44-78. [PMID: 31759872 DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2019.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2018] [Revised: 09/06/2019] [Accepted: 10/16/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Principles of methods for studying particles and fields that cannot be sensed by third-person observers by routine methods can be used to understand the physics of first-person properties of mind. Accordingly, whenever a system exhibits disparate features at multiple levels, unique combination of constraints offered by them direct us towards a solution that will be the first principle of that system. Using this method, it was possible to arrive at a third-person observable solution-point of brain-mind interface. Examination of this location identified a set of unique features that can allow an associatively learned (cue) stimulus to spark hallucinations that form units of first-person internal (inner) sensations reminiscent of stimuli from the associatively learned second item in timescales of milliseconds. It allows us to peep into a virtual space of mind where different modifications and integrations of units of internal sensations generate their different net conformations ranging from perception to an inner sense of hidden relationships that form a hypothesis. Since sparking of inner sensations of the late arriving (when far away) or non-arriving (when hidden) features of items started providing survival advantage, the focus of evolution might have been to optimize this property. Hence, the circuity that generates it can be considered as the primary circuitry of the system. The solution provides several testable predictions. By taking readers through the process of deriving the solution and by explaining how it interconnects disparate findings, it is hoped that the factors determining the physics of mind will become evident.
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- Kunjumon I Vadakkan
- Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, QEII Health Sciences Centre, 1796 Summer Street, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, B3H 3A7, Canada.
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Augusto E, Gambino F. Can NMDA Spikes Dictate Computations of Local Networks and Behavior? Front Mol Neurosci 2019; 12:238. [PMID: 31611774 PMCID: PMC6777373 DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2019.00238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2019] [Accepted: 09/18/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Intelligence is the ability to learn appropriate responses to stimuli and the capacity to master new skills. Synaptic integration at the dendritic level is thought to be essential for this ability through linear and non-linear processing, by allowing neurons to be tuned to relevant information and to maximize adaptive behavior. Showing that dendrites are able to generate local computations that influence how animals perceive the world, form a new memory or learn a new skill was a break-through in neuroscience, since in the past they were seen as passive elements of the neurons, just funneling information to the soma. Here, we provide an overview of the role of dendritic integration in improving the neuronal network and behavioral performance. We focus on how NMDA spikes are generated and their role in neuronal computation for optimal behavioral output based on recent in vivo studies on rodents.
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- Elisabete Augusto
- UMR5297 CNRS Centre Broca Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Interdisciplinary Institute for NeuroScience, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
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- UMR5297 CNRS Centre Broca Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Interdisciplinary Institute for NeuroScience, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
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Humeau Y, Choquet D. The next generation of approaches to investigate the link between synaptic plasticity and learning. Nat Neurosci 2019; 22:1536-1543. [PMID: 31477899 DOI: 10.1038/s41593-019-0480-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2019] [Accepted: 07/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Activity-dependent synaptic plasticity has since long been proposed to represent the subcellular substrate of learning and memory, one of the most important behavioral processes through which we adapt to our environment. Despite the undisputed importance of synaptic plasticity for brain function, its exact contribution to learning processes in the context of cellular and connectivity modifications remains obscure. Causally bridging synaptic and behavioral modifications indeed remains limited by the available tools to measure and control synaptic strength and plasticity in vivo under behaviorally relevant conditions. After a brief summary of the current state of knowledge of the links between synaptic plasticity and learning, we will review and discuss the available and desired tools to progress in this endeavor.
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- Yann Humeau
- Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, UMR 5297, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France. .,Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, UMR 5297, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Bordeaux, France.
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- Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, UMR 5297, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France. .,Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, UMR 5297, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Bordeaux, France. .,Bordeaux Imaging Center, UMS 3420 CNRS - University of Bordeaux, US4 INSERM, Bordeaux, France.
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Kazemipour A, Novak O, Flickinger D, Marvin JS, Abdelfattah AS, King J, Borden PM, Kim JJ, Al-Abdullatif SH, Deal PE, Miller EW, Schreiter ER, Druckmann S, Svoboda K, Looger LL, Podgorski K. Kilohertz frame-rate two-photon tomography. Nat Methods 2019; 16:778-786. [PMID: 31363222 PMCID: PMC6754705 DOI: 10.1038/s41592-019-0493-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2019] [Accepted: 06/14/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Point-scanning two-photon microscopy enables high-resolution imaging within scattering specimens such as the mammalian brain, but sequential acquisition of voxels fundamentally limits its speed. We developed a two-photon imaging technique that scans lines of excitation across a focal plane at multiple angles and computationally recovers high-resolution images, attaining voxel rates of over 1 billion Hz in structured samples. Using a static image as a prior for recording neural activity, we imaged visually evoked and spontaneous glutamate release across hundreds of dendritic spines in mice at depths over 250 µm and frame rates over 1 kHz. Dendritic glutamate transients in anesthetized mice are synchronized within spatially contiguous domains spanning tens of micrometers at frequencies ranging from 1-100 Hz. We demonstrate millisecond-resolved recordings of acetylcholine and voltage indicators, three-dimensional single-particle tracking and imaging in densely labeled cortex. Our method surpasses limits on the speed of raster-scanned imaging imposed by fluorescence lifetime.
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- Abbas Kazemipour
- Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, USA
- Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, USA
- Second Medical Faculty, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, USA
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- Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, USA
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- Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, USA
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- Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, USA
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- Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, USA
- Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, USA
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- Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, USA
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- Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, USA.
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Qin H, Lu J, Jin W, Chen X, Fu L. Multichannel fiber photometry for mapping axonal terminal activity in a restricted brain region in freely moving mice. NEUROPHOTONICS 2019; 6:035011. [PMID: 31528656 PMCID: PMC6739620 DOI: 10.1117/1.nph.6.3.035011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2019] [Accepted: 08/05/2019] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Fiber photometry has been increasingly popular in neuroscience research in freely behaving animals. In combination with genetically encoded calcium indicators, it allows for real-time monitoring of neural activity in neuronal somata, dendrites, and axonal terminals. We developed a multichannel fiber photometry device to map the activity of axonal terminals in a restricted, 100 - μ m -wide brain region in freely moving mice. This device consists of four bundled multimode fibers, each with a 50 - μ m core diameter and a scientific complementary metal-oxide semiconductor camera to simultaneously acquire fluorescence. We achieved a sampling rate of 100 frames / s and sufficient sensitivity to acquire data from axonal terminals. To avoid interference with neighboring channels, the recording depth of each channel was restricted to < 250 μ m . Furthermore, the small-core-diameter fibers did not restrict mouse locomotion. Using the Ca 2 + indicator GCaMP5G, we validated the system by recording Ca 2 + signals in axonal terminals from the medial entorhinal cortex layer II to the hippocampal dentate gyrus (DG) in freely moving mice. We detected spatially separated Ca 2 + signals at four different sites in the DG. Therefore, our multichannel fiber photometry device provides a simple but powerful method to functionally map axonal terminals in spatially confined brain areas of freely moving animals.
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- Han Qin
- Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Wuhan, China
- Huazhong University of Science and Technology, School of Engineering Sciences, Key Laboratory for Biomedical Photonics of Ministry of Education, Wuhan, China
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- Third Military Medical University, Brain Research Center, State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns, and Combined Injury, Chongqing, China
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- Third Military Medical University, Brain Research Center, State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns, and Combined Injury, Chongqing, China
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- Third Military Medical University, Brain Research Center, State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burns, and Combined Injury, Chongqing, China
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- Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Wuhan, China
- Huazhong University of Science and Technology, School of Engineering Sciences, Key Laboratory for Biomedical Photonics of Ministry of Education, Wuhan, China
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Letellier M, Levet F, Thoumine O, Goda Y. Differential role of pre- and postsynaptic neurons in the activity-dependent control of synaptic strengths across dendrites. PLoS Biol 2019; 17:e2006223. [PMID: 31166943 PMCID: PMC6576792 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2006223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2018] [Revised: 06/17/2019] [Accepted: 05/17/2019] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Neurons receive a large number of active synaptic inputs from their many presynaptic partners across their dendritic tree. However, little is known about how the strengths of individual synapses are controlled in balance with other synapses to effectively encode information while maintaining network homeostasis. This is in part due to the difficulty in assessing the activity of individual synapses with identified afferent and efferent connections for a synapse population in the brain. Here, to gain insights into the basic cellular rules that drive the activity-dependent spatial distribution of pre- and postsynaptic strengths across incoming axons and dendrites, we combine patch-clamp recordings with live-cell imaging of hippocampal pyramidal neurons in dissociated cultures and organotypic slices. Under basal conditions, both pre- and postsynaptic strengths cluster on single dendritic branches according to the identity of the presynaptic neurons, thus highlighting the ability of single dendritic branches to exhibit input specificity. Stimulating a single presynaptic neuron induces input-specific and dendritic branchwise spatial clustering of presynaptic strengths, which accompanies a widespread multiplicative scaling of postsynaptic strengths in dissociated cultures and heterosynaptic plasticity at distant synapses in organotypic slices. Our study provides evidence for a potential homeostatic mechanism by which the rapid changes in global or distant postsynaptic strengths compensate for input-specific presynaptic plasticity.
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- Mathieu Letellier
- RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako, Saitama, Japan
- Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
- Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) UMR 5297, Bordeaux, France
- * E-mail: (ML); (YG)
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- Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
- Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) UMR 5297, Bordeaux, France
- Bordeaux Imaging Center, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
- Bordeaux Imaging Center, CNRS UMS 3420, Bordeaux, France
- Bordeaux Imaging Center, INSERM US04, Bordeaux, France
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- Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
- Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) UMR 5297, Bordeaux, France
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- RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Wako, Saitama, Japan
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Density of small dendritic spines and microtubule-associated-protein-2 immunoreactivity in the primary auditory cortex of subjects with schizophrenia. Neuropsychopharmacology 2019; 44:1055-1061. [PMID: 30795003 PMCID: PMC6461932 DOI: 10.1038/s41386-019-0350-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2018] [Revised: 02/15/2019] [Accepted: 02/16/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Previously, we demonstrated that dendritic spine density (DSD) in deep layer 3 of the primary auditory cortex (A1) is lower, due to having fewer small spines, in subjects with schizophrenia (SZ) than non-psychiatric control (NPC) subjects. We also previously demonstrated that microtubule-associated-protein-2 immunoreactivity (MAP2-IR) in A1 deep layer 3 is lower, and positively correlated with DSD, in SZ subjects. Here, we first sought to confirm these findings in an independent cohort of 25 SZ-NPC subject pairs (cohort 1). We used immunohistochemistry and confocal microscopy to measure DSD and MAP2-IR in A1 deep layer 3. Consistent with previous studies, both DSD and MAP2-IR were lower in SZ subjects. We then tested the hypothesis that MAP2-IR mediates the effect of SZ on DSD in a cohort of 45 SZ-NPC subject pairs (combined cohort) that included all subjects from cohort 1 and two previously studied cohorts. Based on the distribution of MAP2-IR values in NPC subjects, we categorized each SZ subject as having either low MAP2-IR (SZ MAP2-IR(low)) or normal MAP2-IR (SZ MAP2-IR(normal)). Among SZ MAP-IR(low) subjects, mean DSD was significantly lower than in NPC subjects. However, mean DSD did not differ between SZ MAP2-IR(normal) and NPC subjects. Moreover, MAP2-IR statistically mediated small spine differences, with lower MAP2-IR values associated with fewer small spines. Our findings confirm that low density of small spines and low MAP2-IR are robust SZ phenotypes and suggest that MAP2-IR mediates the effect of SZ on DSD.
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Yang Y, Lu J, Zuo Y. Changes of Synaptic Structures Associated with Learning, Memory and Diseases. BRAIN SCIENCE ADVANCES 2019. [DOI: 10.26599/bsa.2018.2018.9050012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Synaptic plasticity is widely believed to be the cellular basis of learning and memory. It is influenced by various factors including development, sensory experiences, and brain disorders. Long-term synaptic plasticity is accompanied by protein synthesis and trafficking, leading to structural changes of the synapse. In this review, we focus on the synaptic structural plasticity, which has mainly been studied with in vivo two-photon laser scanning microscopy. We also discuss how a special type of synapses, the multi-contact synapses (including those formed by multi-synaptic boutons and multi-synaptic spines), are associated with experience and learning.
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- Yang Yang
- School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China
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- Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
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Understanding the mechanisms by which long-term synaptic plasticity is expressed remains an important objective in neuroscience. From a physiological perspective, the strength of a synapse can be considered a consequence of several parameters including the probability that a presynaptic action potential (AP) evokes the release of neurotransmitter, the mean number of quanta of transmitter released when release is evoked, and the mean amplitude of a postsynaptic response to a single quantum. Various methods have been employed to estimate these quantal parameters from electrophysiological recordings; such "quantal analysis" has been used to support competing accounts of mechanisms of expression of long-term plasticity. Because electrophysiological recordings, even with minimal presynaptic stimulation, can reflect responses arising at multiple synaptic sites, these methods are open to alternative interpretations. By combining intracellular electrical recording with optical detection of transmission at individual synapses, however, it is possible to eliminate such ambiguity. Here, we describe methods for such combined optical and electrical monitoring of synaptic transmission in brain slice preparations and illustrate how quantal analyses thereby obtained permit more definitive conclusions about the physiological changes that underlie long-term synaptic plasticity.
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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Xue Y, Berry KP, Boivin JR, Rowlands CJ, Takiguchi Y, Nedivi E, So PTC. Scanless volumetric imaging by selective access multifocal multiphoton microscopy. OPTICA 2019; 6:76-83. [PMID: 31984218 PMCID: PMC6980307 DOI: 10.1364/optica.6.000076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2018] [Accepted: 12/17/2018] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Simultaneous, high-resolution imaging across a large number of synaptic and dendritic sites is critical for understanding how neurons receive and integrate signals. Yet, functional imaging that targets a large number of submicrometer-sized synaptic and dendritic locations poses significant technical challenges. We demonstrate a new parallelized approach to address such questions, increasing the signal-to-noise ratio by an order of magnitude compared to previous approaches. This selective access multifocal multiphoton microscopy uses a spatial light modulator to generate multifocal excitation in three dimensions (3D) and a Gaussian-Laguerre phase plate to simultaneously detect fluorescence from these spots throughout the volume. We test the performance of this system by simultaneously recording Ca2+ dynamics from cultured neurons at 98-118 locations distributed throughout a 3D volume. This is the first demonstration of 3D imaging in a "single shot" and permits synchronized monitoring of signal propagation across multiple different dendrites.
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- Yi Xue
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
- Laser Biomedical Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Picower Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Laser Biomedical Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
- Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Hamamatsu, Japan
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- Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
- Picower Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
- Laser Biomedical Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
- Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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Hasselmo ME, Stern CE. A network model of behavioural performance in a rule learning task. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2019; 373:rstb.2017.0275. [PMID: 29483357 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/30/2017] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Humans demonstrate differences in performance on cognitive rule learning tasks which could involve differences in properties of neural circuits. An example model is presented to show how gating of the spread of neural activity could underlie rule learning and the generalization of rules to previously unseen stimuli. This model uses the activity of gating units to regulate the pattern of connectivity between neurons responding to sensory input and subsequent gating units or output units. This model allows analysis of network parameters that could contribute to differences in cognitive rule learning. These network parameters include differences in the parameters of synaptic modification and presynaptic inhibition of synaptic transmission that could be regulated by neuromodulatory influences on neural circuits. Neuromodulatory receptors play an important role in cognitive function, as demonstrated by the fact that drugs that block cholinergic muscarinic receptors can cause cognitive impairments. In discussions of the links between neuromodulatory systems and biologically based traits, the issue of mechanisms through which these linkages are realized is often missing. This model demonstrates potential roles of neural circuit parameters regulated by acetylcholine in learning context-dependent rules, and demonstrates the potential contribution of variation in neural circuit properties and neuromodulatory function to individual differences in cognitive function.This article is part of the theme issue 'Diverse perspectives on diversity: multi-disciplinary approaches to taxonomies of individual differences'.
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- Michael E Hasselmo
- Center for Systems Neuroscience, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Boston University, 610 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Center for Systems Neuroscience, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Boston University, 610 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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Lin X, Zhao T, Xiong W, Wen S, Jin X, Xu XM. Imaging Neural Activity in the Primary Somatosensory Cortex Using Thy1-GCaMP6s Transgenic Mice. J Vis Exp 2019. [PMID: 30663664 DOI: 10.3791/56297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022] Open
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The mammalian brain exhibits marked symmetry across the sagittal plane. However, detailed description of neural dynamics in symmetric brain regions in adult mammalian animals remains elusive. In this study, we describe an experimental procedure for measuring calcium dynamics through dual optical windows above bilateral primary somatosensory corticies (S1) in Thy1-GCaMP6s transgenic mice using 2-photon (2P) microscopy. This method enables recordings and quantifications of neural activity in bilateral mouse brain regions one at a time in the same experiment for a prolonged period in vivo. Key aspects of this method, which can be completed within an hour, include minimally invasive surgery procedures for creating dual optical windows, and the use of 2P imaging. Although we only demonstrate the technique in the S1 area, the method can be applied to other regions of the living brain facilitating the elucidation of structural and functional complexities of brain neural networks.
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- Xiaojing Lin
- Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Group, Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Department of Neurological Surgery and Goodman and Campbell Brain and Spine, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine; Department of Spinal Cord Injury and Repair, Trauma and Orthopedics Institute of Chinese PLA, General Hospital of Jinan Military Region
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- Department of Orthopedics, Shandong Cancer Hospital, Shandong University
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- Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Group, Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Department of Neurological Surgery and Goodman and Campbell Brain and Spine, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine
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- Department of Neurobiology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Academy Military Medical Sciences
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- Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Group, Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Department of Neurological Surgery and Goodman and Campbell Brain and Spine, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine
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- Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Group, Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Department of Neurological Surgery and Goodman and Campbell Brain and Spine, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine;
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Takahashi N. Synaptic topography - Converging connections and emerging function. Neurosci Res 2018; 141:29-35. [PMID: 30468748 DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2018.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2018] [Revised: 10/16/2018] [Accepted: 11/01/2018] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Brain circuits are constituted of individual neurons that are interconnected with a vast array of synapses. In order to understand how brain function emerges from this complex synaptic network, immense efforts have been made to trace the synaptic topography, i.e. arrangement of synaptic connections, of the network. In addition to anatomically elaborating the synaptic layout at multiple levels across brain regions, recent studies have attempted to elucidate the fundamental wiring principles that govern neural information processing in the brain, establishing a link between anatomy and function. In this review, I will discuss recent discoveries on the topographical organization of synaptic connections at the cell-to-cell and subcellular levels in the cortex and hippocampus. Accumulating evidence leads us to acknowledge the highly structured, non-random synaptic connectivity that emerges together with sensory feature preferences of neurons and synchronous neuronal activity.
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- Naoya Takahashi
- Institute for Biology, Neuronal Plasticity, Humboldt University of Berlin, D-10117, Berlin, Germany.
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Martin C, Li T, Hegarty E, Zhao P, Mondal S, Ben-Yakar A. Line excitation array detection fluorescence microscopy at 0.8 million frames per second. Nat Commun 2018; 9:4499. [PMID: 30374138 PMCID: PMC6206139 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06775-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2018] [Accepted: 09/07/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Three-dimensional, fluorescence imaging methods with ~1 MHz frame rates are needed for high-speed, blur-free flow cytometry and capturing volumetric neuronal activity. The frame rates of current imaging methods are limited to kHz by the photon budget, slow camera readout, and/or slow laser beam scanners. Here, we present line excitation array detection (LEAD) fluorescence microscopy, a high-speed imaging method capable of providing 0.8 million frames per second. The method performs 0.8 MHz line-scanning of an excitation laser beam using a chirped signal-driven longitudinal acousto-optic deflector to create a virtual light-sheet, and images the field-of-view with a linear photomultiplier tube array to generate a 66 × 14 pixel frame each scan cycle. We implement LEAD microscopy as a blur-free flow cytometer for Caenorhabditis elegans moving at 1 m s-1 with 3.5-µm resolution and signal-to-background ratios >200. Signal-to-noise measurements indicate future LEAD fluorescence microscopes can reach higher resolutions and pixels per frame without compromising frame rates.
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- Chris Martin
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 107 W Dean Keeton St., Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 204 E Dean Keeton St., Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 204 E Dean Keeton St., Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 2501 Speedway, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 204 E Dean Keeton St., Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 107 W Dean Keeton St., Austin, TX, 78712, USA.
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 204 E Dean Keeton St., Austin, TX, 78712, USA.
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 2501 Speedway, Austin, TX, 78712, USA.
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Vásquez CE, Reberger R, Dall'Oglio A, Calcagnotto ME, Rasia-Filho AA. Neuronal types of the human cortical amygdaloid nucleus. J Comp Neurol 2018; 526:2776-2801. [PMID: 30156296 DOI: 10.1002/cne.24527] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2018] [Revised: 08/14/2018] [Accepted: 08/15/2018] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The human cortical amygdaloid nucleus (CoA) receives exteroceptive sensory stimuli, modulates the functions coded by the intrinsic amygdaloid circuit, and constitutes the beginning of the limbic lobe continuum with direct and indirect connections toward subcortical, allocortical, and higher order neocortical areas. To provide basic data on the human CoA, we characterized and classified the neurons using the thionin and the "single-section" Golgi method adapted for postmortem brain tissue and light microscopy. We found 10 different types of neurons named according to the morphological features of the cell body, dendritic branches, and spine distribution. Most cells are multipolar spiny neurons with two or more primary dendrites, including pyramidal-like ones. Three-dimensional reconstructions evidenced the types and diversity of the dendritic spines in each neuron. The unlike density of spines along dendritic branches, from proximal to distal ones, indicate that the synaptic processing and plasticity can be different in each CoA neuron. Our study provides novel data on the neuronal composition of the human CoA indicating that the variety of cells in this region can have phylogenetic, ontogenetic, morphological, and likely functional implications for the integrated human brain function. This can reflect both a more complex subcortical synaptic processing of sensory and emotional information and an adaptation for species-specific social behavior display.
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- Carlos Escobar Vásquez
- Neuroscience Graduate Program, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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- Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Medical Engineering Program, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Basic Sciences/Physiology, Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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- Neuroscience Graduate Program, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.,Biochemistry Graduate Program, Neurophysiology and Neurochemistry of Neuronal Excitability and Synaptic Plasticity Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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- Neuroscience Graduate Program, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.,Department of Basic Sciences/Physiology, Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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A corticopontine circuit for initiation of urination. Nat Neurosci 2018; 21:1541-1550. [DOI: 10.1038/s41593-018-0256-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2018] [Accepted: 09/20/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation affects auditory cortex plasticity in normal-hearing and noise-exposed rats. Brain Stimul 2018; 11:1008-1023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2018.05.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2017] [Revised: 05/10/2018] [Accepted: 05/28/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Basak R, Narayanan R. Spatially dispersed synapses yield sharply-tuned place cell responses through dendritic spike initiation. J Physiol 2018; 596:4173-4205. [PMID: 29893405 PMCID: PMC6117611 DOI: 10.1113/jp275310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2018] [Accepted: 06/01/2018] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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KEY POINTS The generation of dendritic spikes and the consequent sharp tuning of neuronal responses are together attainable even when iso-feature synapses are randomly dispersed across the dendritic arbor. Disparate combinations of channel conductances with distinct configurations of randomly dispersed place field synapses concomitantly yield similar sharp tuning profiles and similar functional maps of several intrinsic properties. Targeted synaptic plasticity converts silent cells to place cells for specific place fields in models with disparate channel combinations that receive dispersed synaptic inputs from multiple place field locations. Dispersed localization of iso-feature synapses is a strong candidate for achieving sharp feature selectivity in neurons across sensory-perceptual systems, with several degrees of freedom in relation to synaptic locations. Quantitative evidence for the possibility that degeneracy (i.e. the ability of disparate structural components to yield similar functional outcomes) could act as a broad framework that effectively accomplishes the twin goals of input-feature encoding and homeostasis of intrinsic properties without cross interferences. ABSTRACT A prominent hypothesis spanning several sensory-perceptual systems implicates spatially clustered synapses in the generation of dendritic spikes that mediate sharply-tuned neuronal responses to input features. In this conductance-based morphologically-precise computational study, we tested this hypothesis by systematically analysing the impact of distinct synaptic and channel localization profiles on sharpness of spatial tuning in hippocampal pyramidal neurons. We found that the generation of dendritic spikes, the emergence of an excitatory ramp in somatic voltage responses, the expression of several intrinsic somatodendritic functional maps and sharp tuning of place-cell responses were all attainable even when iso-feature synapses are randomly dispersed across the dendritic arbor of models with disparate channel combinations. Strikingly, the generation and propagation of dendritic spikes, reliant on dendritic sodium channels and N-methyl-d-asparate receptors, mediated the sharpness of spatial tuning achieved with dispersed synaptic localization. To ensure that our results were not artefacts of narrow parametric choices, we confirmed these conclusions with independent multiparametric stochastic search algorithms spanning thousands of unique models for each synaptic localization scenario. Next, employing virtual knockout models, we demonstrated a vital role for dendritically expressed voltage-gated ion channels, especially the transient potassium channels, in maintaining sharpness of place-cell tuning. Importantly, we established that synaptic potentiation targeted to afferents from one specific place field was sufficient to impart place field selectivity even when intrinsically disparate neurons received randomly dispersed afferents from multiple place field locations. Our results provide quantitative evidence for disparate combinations of channel and synaptic localization profiles to concomitantly yield similar tuning and similar intrinsic properties.
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- Reshma Basak
- Cellular Neurophysiology LaboratoryMolecular Biophysics UnitIndian Institute of ScienceBangaloreIndia
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- Cellular Neurophysiology LaboratoryMolecular Biophysics UnitIndian Institute of ScienceBangaloreIndia
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Fear extinction reverses dendritic spine formation induced by fear conditioning in the mouse auditory cortex. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2018; 115:9306-9311. [PMID: 30150391 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1801504115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Fear conditioning-induced behavioral responses can be extinguished after fear extinction. While fear extinction is generally thought to be a form of new learning, several lines of evidence suggest that neuronal changes associated with fear conditioning could be reversed after fear extinction. To better understand how fear conditioning and extinction modify synaptic circuits, we examined changes of postsynaptic dendritic spines of layer V pyramidal neurons in the mouse auditory cortex over time using transcranial two-photon microscopy. We found that auditory-cued fear conditioning induced the formation of new dendritic spines within 2 days. The survived new spines induced by fear conditioning with one auditory cue were clustered within dendritic branch segments and spatially segregated from new spines induced by fear conditioning with a different auditory cue. Importantly, fear extinction preferentially caused the elimination of newly formed spines induced by fear conditioning in an auditory cue-specific manner. Furthermore, after fear extinction, fear reconditioning induced reformation of new dendritic spines in close proximity to the sites of new spine formation induced by previous fear conditioning. These results show that fear conditioning, extinction, and reconditioning induce cue- and location-specific dendritic spine remodeling in the auditory cortex. They also suggest that changes of synaptic connections induced by fear conditioning are reversed after fear extinction.
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Zancan M, Cunha RSR, Schroeder F, Xavier LL, Rasia‐Filho AA. Remodeling of the number and structure of dendritic spines in the medial amygdala: From prepubertal sexual dimorphism to puberty and effect of sexual experience in male rats. Eur J Neurosci 2018; 48:1851-1865. [DOI: 10.1111/ejn.14052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2017] [Revised: 04/18/2018] [Accepted: 06/13/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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- Mariana Zancan
- Department of Basic Sciences/PhysiologyFederal University of Health Sciences Porto Alegre Brazil
- Graduation Program in NeuroscienceFederal University of Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre Brazil
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- Department of Basic Sciences/PhysiologyFederal University of Health Sciences Porto Alegre Brazil
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- Laboratory of Tissue BiologyFaculty of BiosciencesPontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) Porto Alegre Brazil
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- Laboratory of Tissue BiologyFaculty of BiosciencesPontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) Porto Alegre Brazil
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- Department of Basic Sciences/PhysiologyFederal University of Health Sciences Porto Alegre Brazil
- Graduation Program in NeuroscienceFederal University of Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre Brazil
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Biró ÁA, Brémaud A, Falck J, Ruiz AJ. A-type K + channels impede supralinear summation of clustered glutamatergic inputs in layer 3 neocortical pyramidal neurons. Neuropharmacology 2018; 140:86-99. [PMID: 30009837 PMCID: PMC6137074 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2018.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2017] [Revised: 06/15/2018] [Accepted: 07/04/2018] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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A-type K+ channels restrain the spread of incoming signals in tufted and apical dendrites of pyramidal neurons resulting in strong compartmentalization. However, the exact subunit composition and functional significance of K+ channels expressed in small diameter proximal dendrites remain poorly understood. We focus on A-type K+ channels expressed in basal and oblique dendrites of cortical layer 3 pyramidal neurons, in ex vivo brain slices from young adult mice. Blocking putative Kv4 subunits with phrixotoxin-2 enhances depolarizing potentials elicited by uncaging RuBi-glutamate at single dendritic spines. A concentration of 4-aminopyridine reported to block Kv1 has no effect on such responses. 4-aminopyridine and phrixotoxin-2 increase supralinear summation of glutamatergic potentials evoked by synchronous activation of clustered spines. The effect of 4-aminopyridine on glutamate responses is simulated in a computational model where the dendritic A-type conductance is distributed homogeneously or in a linear density gradient. Thus, putative Kv4-containing channels depress excitatory inputs at single synapses. The additional recruitment of Kv1 subunits might require the synchronous activation of multiple inputs to regulate the gain of signal integration. We focus on A-type K+ channels expressed in oblique and basal dendrites. Putative Kv4 subunits depress excitatory signals generated by single spine excitation. Kv4 and Kv1 regulate supralinear signal integration at clustered dendritic spines. A computational model simulates Kv-mediated modulation of dendritic integration.
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- Ágota A Biró
- UCL School of Pharmacy, Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AX, United Kingdom
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- UCL School of Pharmacy, Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AX, United Kingdom
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- UCL School of Pharmacy, Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AX, United Kingdom
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- UCL School of Pharmacy, Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AX, United Kingdom.
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Bayguinov PO, Oakley DM, Shih CC, Geanon DJ, Joens MS, Fitzpatrick JAJ. Modern Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopy. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2018; 85:e39. [PMID: 29927100 DOI: 10.1002/cpcy.39] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Since its commercialization in the late 1980's, confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) has since become one of the most prevalent fluorescence microscopy techniques for three-dimensional structural studies of biological cells and tissues. The flexibility of the approach has enabled its application in a diverse array of studies, from the fast imaging of dynamic processes in living cells, to meticulous morphological analyses of tissues, and co-localization of protein expression patterns. In this chapter, we introduce the principles of confocal microscopy and discuss how the approach has become a mainstay in the biological sciences. We describe the components of a CLSM system and assess how modern implementations of the approach have further expanded the use of the technique. Finally, we briefly outline some practical considerations to take into account when acquiring data using a CLSM system. © 2018 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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- Peter O Bayguinov
- Center for Cellular Imaging, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
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- Center for Cellular Imaging, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
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- Center for Cellular Imaging, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
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- Center for Cellular Imaging, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
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- Center for Cellular Imaging, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
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- Center for Cellular Imaging, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri.,Departments of Cell Biology & Physiology and Neuroscience, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
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Deitcher Y, Eyal G, Kanari L, Verhoog MB, Atenekeng Kahou GA, Mansvelder HD, de Kock CPJ, Segev I. Comprehensive Morpho-Electrotonic Analysis Shows 2 Distinct Classes of L2 and L3 Pyramidal Neurons in Human Temporal Cortex. Cereb Cortex 2018; 27:5398-5414. [PMID: 28968789 PMCID: PMC5939232 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhx226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2017] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
Abstract
There have been few quantitative characterizations of the morphological, biophysical, and cable properties of neurons in the human neocortex. We employed feature-based statistical methods on a rare data set of 60 3D reconstructed pyramidal neurons from L2 and L3 in the human temporal cortex (HL2/L3 PCs) removed after brain surgery. Of these cells, 25 neurons were also characterized physiologically. Thirty-two morphological features were analyzed (e.g., dendritic surface area, 36 333 ± 18 157 μm2; number of basal trees, 5.55 ± 1.47; dendritic diameter, 0.76 ± 0.28 μm). Eighteen features showed a significant gradual increase with depth from the pia (e.g., dendritic length and soma radius). The other features showed weak or no correlation with depth (e.g., dendritic diameter). The basal dendritic terminals in HL2/L3 PCs are particularly elongated, enabling multiple nonlinear processing units in these dendrites. Unlike the morphological features, the active biophysical features (e.g., spike shapes and rates) and passive/cable features (e.g., somatic input resistance, 47.68 ± 15.26 MΩ, membrane time constant, 12.03 ± 1.79 ms, average dendritic cable length, 0.99 ± 0.24) were depth-independent. A novel descriptor for apical dendritic topology yielded 2 distinct classes, termed hereby as “slim-tufted” and “profuse-tufted” HL2/L3 PCs; the latter class tends to fire at higher rates. Thus, our morpho-electrotonic analysis shows 2 distinct classes of HL2/L3 PCs.
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Affiliation(s)
- Yair Deitcher
- Department of Neurobiology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.,Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
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- Department of Neurobiology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
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- Blue Brain Project, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Campus Biotech, Chemin de Mines, 9, Geneva 1202, Switzerland
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- Department of Integrative Neurophysiology, Centre for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam NL-1081 HV, The Netherlands
| | - Guy Antoine Atenekeng Kahou
- Blue Brain Project, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Campus Biotech, Chemin de Mines, 9, Geneva 1202, Switzerland
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- Department of Integrative Neurophysiology, Centre for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam NL-1081 HV, The Netherlands
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- Department of Integrative Neurophysiology, Centre for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam NL-1081 HV, The Netherlands
| | - Idan Segev
- Department of Neurobiology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.,Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
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