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André M, Kaifu K, Solé M, van der Schaar M, Akamatsu T, Balastegui A, Sánchez AM, Castell JV. Contribution to the Understanding of Particle Motion Perception in Marine Invertebrates. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2016; 875:47-55. [PMID: 26610943 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2981-8_6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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Marine invertebrates potentially represent a group of species whose ecology may be influenced by artificial noise. Exposure to anthropogenic sound sources could have a direct consequence on the functionality and sensitivity of their sensory organs, the statocysts, which are responsible for their equilibrium and movements in the water column. The availability of novel laser Doppler vibrometer techniques has recently opened the possibility of measuring whole body (distance, velocity, and acceleration) vibration as a direct stimulus eliciting statocyst response, offering the scientific community a new level of understanding of the marine invertebrate hearing mechanism.
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- Michel André
- Laboratory of Applied Bioacoustics, Technical University of Catalonia (BarcelonaTech), Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), 08800 Vilanova i la Geltrú, 08034, Barcelona, Spain.
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- Department of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-8657, Japan.
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- Laboratory of Applied Bioacoustics, Technical University of Catalonia (BarcelonaTech), Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), 08800 Vilanova i la Geltrú, 08034, Barcelona, Spain.
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- Laboratory of Applied Bioacoustics, Technical University of Catalonia (BarcelonaTech), Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), 08800 Vilanova i la Geltrú, 08034, Barcelona, Spain.
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- National Research Institute of Fisheries Engineering, Fisheries Research Agency, Kamisu-shi, Ibaraki, 314-0408, Japan.
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- Laboratory of Acoustic and Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Catalonia (BarcelonaTech), Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), 08222, Terrassa, 08034, Barcelona, Spain.
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- Laboratory of Applied Bioacoustics, Technical University of Catalonia (BarcelonaTech), Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), 08800 Vilanova i la Geltrú, 08034, Barcelona, Spain.
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- Laboratory of Applied Bioacoustics, Technical University of Catalonia (BarcelonaTech), Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), 08800 Vilanova i la Geltrú, 08034, Barcelona, Spain.
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Pujol R, Pickett SB, Nguyen TB, Stone JS. Large basolateral processes on type II hair cells are novel processing units in mammalian vestibular organs. J Comp Neurol 2014; 522:3141-59. [PMID: 24825750 DOI: 10.1002/cne.23625] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2013] [Revised: 05/05/2014] [Accepted: 05/06/2014] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Sensory receptors in the vestibular system (hair cells) encode head movements and drive central motor reflexes that control gaze, body movements, and body orientation. In mammals, type I and II vestibular hair cells are defined by their shape, contacts with vestibular afferent nerves, and membrane conductance. Here we describe unique morphological features of type II vestibular hair cells in mature rodents (mice and gerbils) and bats. These features are cytoplasmic processes that extend laterally from the hair cell base and project under type I hair cells. Closer analysis of adult mouse utricles demonstrated that the basolateral processes of type II hair cells vary in shape, size, and branching, with the longest processes extending three to four hair cell widths. The hair cell basolateral processes synapse upon vestibular afferent nerves and receive inputs from vestibular efferent nerves. Furthermore, some basolateral processes make physical contacts with the processes of other type II hair cells, forming some sort of network among type II hair cells. Basolateral processes are rare in perinatal mice and do not attain their mature form until 3-6 weeks of age. These observations demonstrate that basolateral processes are significant signaling regions of type II vestibular hair cells and suggest that type II hair cells may directly communicate with each other, which has not been described in vertebrates.
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- Rémy Pujol
- The Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center, and the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 98195-7923; INSERM Unit 1051, Institute of Neuroscience, 34091, Montpellier, France
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Williamson R, Chrachri A. A model biological neural network: the cephalopod vestibular system. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2007; 362:473-81. [PMID: 17255012 PMCID: PMC2323566 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1975] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have become increasingly sophisticated and are widely used for the extraction of patterns or meaning from complicated or imprecise datasets. At the same time, our knowledge of the biological systems that inspired these ANNs has also progressed and a range of model systems are emerging where there is detailed information not only on the architecture and components of the system but also on their ontogeny, plasticity and the adaptive characteristics of their interconnections. We describe here a biological neural network contained in the cephalopod statocysts; the statocysts are analogous to the vertebrae vestibular system and provide the animal with sensory information on its orientation and movements in space. The statocyst network comprises only a small number of cells, made up of just three classes of neurons but, in combination with the large efferent innervation from the brain, forms an 'active' sense organs that uses feedback and feed-forward mechanisms to alter and dynamically modulate the activity within cells and how the various components are interconnected. The neurons are fully accessible to physiological investigation and the system provides an excellent model for describing the mechanisms underlying the operation of a sophisticated neural network.
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- Roddy Williamson
- Faculty of Science, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AA, UK.
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Chrachri A, Williamson R. Synaptic interactions between crista hair cells in the statocyst of the squid Alloteuthis subulata. J Neurophysiol 1998; 80:656-66. [PMID: 9705459 DOI: 10.1152/jn.1998.80.2.656] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Intracellular injections of the fluorescent dye Lucifer yellow into the various cell types within the anterior transverse crista segment of the statocyst of squid revealed that the primary sensory hair cells and both large and small first-order afferent neurons have relatively simple morphologies, each cell having a single, unbranched axon that passes directly into the small crista nerve that innervates the anterior transverse crista. However, the small first-order neurons have short dendritic processes occurring in the region of the sensory hair cells. The secondary sensory hair cells have no centripetal axons, but some have long processes extending from their bases along the segment. Simultaneous intracellular recordings from pairs of the different cell types in the anterior transverse crista segment demonstrated that electrical coupling is widespread; secondary sensory hair cells are coupled electrically along a hair cell row, as are groups of primary sensory hair cells. Secondary sensory hair cell also are coupled to neighboring small first-order afferent neurons. However, this coupling is rectifying in that it only occurs from secondary sensory hair cells to first-order afferent neurons. Direct electrical stimulation of the small crista nerve to excite the efferent axons revealed efferent connections to both the primary sensory hair cells and the small first-order afferent neurons. These efferent responses were of three types: excitatory or inhibitory postsynaptic potentials and excitatory postsynaptic potentials followed by inhibitory postsynaptic potentials. The functional significance of the cell interactions within the crista epithelium of the statocyst of squid is discussed and comparisons drawn with the balance organs of other animals.
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- A Chrachri
- The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Citadel Hill, Plymouth PL1 2PB; and Department Biological Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth PL4 8AA, United Kingdom
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Chrachri A, Williamson R. Electrical coupling between primary hair cells in the statocyst of the squid, Alloteuthis subulata. Neurosci Lett 1993; 161:227-31. [PMID: 8272270 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(93)90300-a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Intracellular recordings were made from primary sensory hair cells located on the dorsal side of the anterior crista segment of the squid statocyst. These hair cells were electrophysiologically identified by the occurrence of an antidromic action potential after electrical stimulation of the crista nerve. Two types of subthreshold, depolarising potentials were observed in the primary sensory hair cells. Firstly, those due to efferent inputs onto the primary hair cells and secondly those correlated one-to-one with action potentials in neighbouring primary hair cells. The former depolarising potentials could be blocked by bath applied cobalt, indicating chemical transmission, while the latter could not. Injection of a depolarising or hyperpolarising current into a primary hair cell depolarised or hyperpolarised, respectively, a neighbouring primary hair cell implying that the hair cells are electrically coupled with an electrical coupling coefficient of up to 0.4.
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- A Chrachri
- Marine Biological Association of the UK, Citadel Hill, Plymouth
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Bullock TH, Budelmann BU. Sensory evoked potentials in unanesthetized unrestrained cuttlefish: a new preparation for brain physiology in cephalopods. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 1991; 168:141-50. [PMID: 2033566 DOI: 10.1007/bf00217112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Up to five microelectrodes inserted through short hypodermic needles in the cranial cartilage of Sepia officinalis recorded potentials while the cuttlefish moved freely in a small enclosure. Compound field potentials and unit spikes were seen during ongoing, spontaneous activity and after sensory stimulation. Ongoing activity resembles that reported for octopus, with maximum power usually below 20 Hz. Amplitude varies greatly but has not been seen to shut off or turn on abruptly and globally as in octopus. Evoked potentials, focally large after flashes of light consist of several waves; the first is largest, positive and peaks at ca. 35 ms (called P35), followed by ca. P75, P95, N110 and smaller waves or oscillations lasting more than 0.5 s. The Upper Following Frequency (highest flashing rate the potentials can follow 1:1), without averaging, is greater than 15 flashes/s (20-22 degrees C); at 20/s the 1:1 following lasts for 1 or 2 s. The Lower Fusion Frequency of averaged responses is less than 30/s. Gentle tapping of the tank wall evokes local, brief, fast potentials. No responses have been found to loud air-borne clicks and tone bursts with principal energy at 300 Hz or to electric fields in the bath at 50-100 microV/cm. In a few loci relatively large slow Omitted Stimulus Potentials have been seen following the end of a train of flashes at more than 5/s; these are by definition event related potentials and a special, central form of OFF response.
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- T H Bullock
- Neurobiology Unit, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla
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Williamson R. Secondary hair cells and afferent neurones of the squid statocyst receive both inhibitory and excitatory efferent inputs. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 1989. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00610883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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