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Assous M. Striatal cholinergic transmission. Focus on nicotinic receptors' influence in striatal circuits. Eur J Neurosci 2021; 53:2421-2442. [PMID: 33529401 PMCID: PMC8161166 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.15135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Revised: 01/25/2021] [Accepted: 01/27/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Abstract
The critical role of acetylcholine (ACh) in the basal ganglia is evident from the effect of cholinergic agents in patients suffering from several related neurological disorders, such as Parkinson's disease, Tourette syndrome, or dystonia. The striatum possesses the highest density of ACh markers in the basal ganglia underlying the importance of ACh in this structure. Striatal cholinergic interneurons (CINs) are responsible for the bulk of striatal ACh, although extrinsic cholinergic afferents from brainstem structures may also play a role. CINs are tonically active, and synchronized pause in their activity occurs following the presentation of salient stimuli during behavioral conditioning. However, the synaptic mechanisms involved are not fully understood in this physiological response. ACh modulates striatal circuits by acting on muscarinic and nicotinic receptors existing in several combinations both presynaptically and postsynaptically. While the effects of ACh in the striatum through muscarinic receptors have received particular attention, nicotinic receptors function has been less studied. Here, after briefly reviewing relevant results regarding muscarinic receptors expression and function, I will focus on striatal nicotinic receptor expressed presynaptically on glutamatergic and dopaminergic afferents and postsynaptically on diverse striatal interneurons populations. I will also review recent evidence suggesting the involvement of different GABAergic sources in two distinct nicotinic-receptor-mediated striatal circuits: the disynaptic inhibition of striatal projection neurons and the recurrent inhibition among CINs. A better understanding of striatal nicotinic receptors expression and function may help to develop targeted pharmacological interventions to treat brain disorders such as Parkinson's disease, Tourette syndrome, dystonia, or nicotine addiction.
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- Maxime Assous
- Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, USA
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Chiricozzi E, Mauri L, Lunghi G, Di Biase E, Fazzari M, Maggioni M, Valsecchi M, Prioni S, Loberto N, Pomè DY, Ciampa MG, Fato P, Verlengia G, Cattaneo S, Assini R, Wu G, Alselehdar S, Ledeen RW, Sonnino S. Parkinson's disease recovery by GM1 oligosaccharide treatment in the B4galnt1 +/- mouse model. Sci Rep 2019; 9:19330. [PMID: 31852959 PMCID: PMC6920361 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-55885-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2019] [Accepted: 12/03/2019] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
Abstract
Given the recent in vitro discovery that the free soluble oligosaccharide of GM1 is the bioactive portion of GM1 for neurotrophic functions, we investigated its therapeutic potential in the B4galnt1+/− mice, a model of sporadic Parkinson’s disease. We found that the GM1 oligosaccharide, systemically administered, reaches the brain and completely rescues the physical symptoms, reduces the abnormal nigral α-synuclein content, restores nigral tyrosine hydroxylase expression and striatal neurotransmitter levels, overlapping the wild-type condition. Thus, this study supports the idea that the Parkinson’s phenotype expressed by the B4galnt1+/− mice is due to a reduced level of neuronal ganglioside content and lack of interactions between the oligosaccharide portion of GM1 with specific membrane proteins. It also points to the therapeutic potential of the GM1 oligosaccharide for treatment of sporadic Parkinson’s disease.
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- Elena Chiricozzi
- Department of Medical Biotechnology and Transcriptional Medicine, University of Milano, Milano, Italy.
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- Department of Medical Biotechnology and Transcriptional Medicine, University of Milano, Milano, Italy
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- Department of Medical Biotechnology and Transcriptional Medicine, University of Milano, Milano, Italy
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- Department of Medical Biotechnology and Transcriptional Medicine, University of Milano, Milano, Italy
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- Department of Medical Biotechnology and Transcriptional Medicine, University of Milano, Milano, Italy
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- Department of Medical Biotechnology and Transcriptional Medicine, University of Milano, Milano, Italy
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- Department of Medical Biotechnology and Transcriptional Medicine, University of Milano, Milano, Italy
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- Department of Medical Biotechnology and Transcriptional Medicine, University of Milano, Milano, Italy
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- Department of Medical Biotechnology and Transcriptional Medicine, University of Milano, Milano, Italy
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- Department of Medical Biotechnology and Transcriptional Medicine, University of Milano, Milano, Italy
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- Department of Medical Biotechnology and Transcriptional Medicine, University of Milano, Milano, Italy
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- Department of Medical Biotechnology and Transcriptional Medicine, University of Milano, Milano, Italy
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- School of Medicine, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano, Italy.,Department of Medical Sciences and National Institute of Neuroscience, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
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- School of Medicine, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano, Italy
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- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, USA
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- Division of Neurochemistry, Department of Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA
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- Division of Neurochemistry, Department of Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA
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- Division of Neurochemistry, Department of Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA
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- Department of Medical Biotechnology and Transcriptional Medicine, University of Milano, Milano, Italy.
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Aceves Buendia JDJ, Tiroshi L, Chiu W, Goldberg JA. Selective remodeling of glutamatergic transmission to striatal cholinergic interneurons after dopamine depletion. Eur J Neurosci 2019; 49:824-833. [PMID: 28922504 PMCID: PMC6519226 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.13715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2017] [Revised: 09/13/2017] [Accepted: 09/13/2017] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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The widely held view that the pathophysiology of Parkinson's disease arises from an under-activation of the direct pathway striatal spiny neurons (dSPNs) has gained support from a recently described weakening of the glutamatergic projection from the parafascicular nucleus (PfN) to dSPNs in experimental parkinsonism. However, the impact of the remodeling of the thalamostriatal projection cannot be fully appreciated without considering its impact on cholinergic interneurons (ChIs) that themselves preferentially activate indirect pathway spiny neurons (iSPNs). To study this thalamostriatal projection, we virally transfected with Cre-dependent channelrhodopsin-2 (ChR2) the PfN of Vglut2-Cre mice that were dopamine-depleted with 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA). In parallel, we studied the corticostriatal projection to ChIs in 6-OHDA-treated transgenic mice expressing ChR2 under the Thy1 promoter. We found the 6-OHDA lesions failed to affect short-term synaptic plasticity or the size of unitary responses evoked optogenetically in either of these projections. However, we found that NMDA-to-AMPA ratios at PfN synapses-that were significantly larger than NMDA-to-AMPA ratios at cortical synapses-were reduced by 6-OHDA treatment, thereby impairing synaptic integration at PfN synapses onto ChIs. Finally, we found that application of an agonist of the D5 dopamine receptors on ChIs potentiated NMDA currents without affecting AMPA currents or short-term plasticity selectively at PfN synapses. We propose that dopamine depletion leads to an effective de-potentiation of NMDA currents at PfN synapses onto ChIs which degrades synaptic integration. This selective remodeling of NMDA currents at PfN synapses may counter the selective weakening of PfN synapses onto dSPNs in parkinsonism.
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- Jose de Jesus Aceves Buendia
- Department of Medical NeurobiologyInstitute of Medical Research Israel – CanadaThe Faculty of MedicineThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem9112102JerusalemIsrael
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- Department of Medical NeurobiologyInstitute of Medical Research Israel – CanadaThe Faculty of MedicineThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem9112102JerusalemIsrael
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- Department of Medical NeurobiologyInstitute of Medical Research Israel – CanadaThe Faculty of MedicineThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem9112102JerusalemIsrael
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- Department of Medical NeurobiologyInstitute of Medical Research Israel – CanadaThe Faculty of MedicineThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem9112102JerusalemIsrael
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Asri R, O'Neill B, Patel JC, Siletti KA, Rice ME. Detection of evoked acetylcholine release in mouse brain slices. Analyst 2018; 141:6416-6421. [PMID: 27722568 DOI: 10.1039/c6an01758d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The study of transmitter interactions in reward and motor pathways in the brain, including the striatum, requires methodology to detect stimulus-driven neurotransmitter release events. Such methods exist for dopamine, and have contributed to the understanding of local and behavioral factors that regulate dopamine release. However, factors that regulate release of another key transmitter in these pathways, acetylcholine (ACh), are unresolved, in part because of limited temporal and spatial resolution of current detection methods. We have optimized a voltammetric method for detection of local stimulus-evoked ACh release using enzyme-coated carbon-fiber microelectrodes and fast-scan cyclic voltammetry. These electrodes are based on the detection of H2O2 generated by the actions of acetylcholine esterase and choline oxidase, and reliably respond to ACh in a concentration-dependent manner. Methods for enzyme coating were optimized for mechanical stability that allowed for their use in ex vivo brain slices. We report here the first quantitative assessment of extracellular ACh concentration after local electrical stimulation in dorsal striatum in slices from control mice. The selective detection of ACh under these conditions was confirmed by showing that the response detected in the control slices was absent in slices from mice bred to lack ACh synthesis in the forebrain. These electrodes represent a new tool to study ACh and ACh-dopamine interactions with micrometer spatial resolution.
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- R Asri
- New York University School of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA.
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- New York University School of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA.
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- New York University School of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA.
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- New York University School of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA.
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- New York University School of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA.
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Assini R, Abercrombie ED. Zolpidem ameliorates motor impairments in the unilaterally 6-hydroxydopamine-lesioned rat. Eur J Neurosci 2018; 48:1896-1905. [PMID: 30019535 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.14075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2018] [Revised: 06/29/2018] [Accepted: 07/14/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Nuclei within the basal ganglia-such as the globus pallidus external segment, subthalamic nucleus, and substantia nigra pars reticulata-have been shown to exhibit synchronous bursting activity entrained to excessive cortical beta oscillations following dopamine depletion. Zolpidem binds to GABAA receptors with selectivity for those expressing the α1 subunit, potentiating inhibitory postsynaptic currents and increasing the time decay of channel opening. Interestingly, zolpidem-sensitive nuclei within the basal ganglia circuitry are also those that have been shown to exhibit hyperexcitation in a dopamine-depleted state. We hypothesized that a drug with selectivity for these nuclei may improve motor impairments associated with Parkinson's disease. In order to determine the threshold dose at which zolpidem might encumber motor behavior, a dose-response experiment was performed in intact rats using rotarod. Next, we tested whether subthreshold doses (0.1, 0.25, 0.5 mg/kg; i.p.) of zolpidem improved volitional motor behavior/coordination using the rotarod balance beam and cylinder/paw preference tests in unilaterally 6-hydroxydopamine-lesioned rats. It was found that 0.1 mg/kg zolpidem significantly improved rotarod performance and significantly reduced forelimb use asymmetry compared to undrugged post-lesion conditions. Here, we present the first translational evidence for a role of zolpidem-sensitive GABAA receptors in the treatment of PD motor symptoms. Our data show that zolpidem improves both motor coordination and volitional forelimb use in the unilateral 6-hydroxydopamine lesion model of PD, and thus suggest that zolpidem-sensitive GABAA receptors may represent a novel therapeutic target for the treatment of motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease.
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- Robert Assini
- Center for Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey
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- Center for Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey
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Tanimura A, Pancani T, Lim SAO, Tubert C, Melendez AE, Shen W, Surmeier DJ. Striatal cholinergic interneurons and Parkinson's disease. Eur J Neurosci 2018; 47:1148-1158. [PMID: 28677242 PMCID: PMC6074051 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.13638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2017] [Revised: 06/27/2017] [Accepted: 06/30/2017] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Giant, aspiny cholinergic interneurons (ChIs) have long been known to be key nodes in the striatal circuitry controlling goal-directed actions and habits. In recent years, new experimental approaches, like optogenetics and monosynaptic rabies virus mapping, have expanded our understanding of how ChIs contribute to the striatal activity underlying action selection and the interplay of dopaminergic and cholinergic signaling. These approaches also have begun to reveal how ChI function is distorted in disease states affecting the basal ganglia, like Parkinson's disease (PD). This review gives a brief overview of our current understanding of the functional role played by ChIs in striatal physiology and how this changes in PD. The translational implications of these discoveries, as well as the gaps that remain to be bridged, are discussed as well.
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- Asami Tanimura
- Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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Assous M, Tepper JM. Excitatory extrinsic afferents to striatal interneurons and interactions with striatal microcircuitry. Eur J Neurosci 2018; 49:593-603. [PMID: 29480942 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.13881] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2018] [Revised: 02/20/2018] [Accepted: 02/20/2018] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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The striatum constitutes the main input structure of the basal ganglia and receives two major excitatory glutamatergic inputs, from the cortex and the thalamus. Excitatory cortico- and thalamostriatal connections innervate the principal neurons of the striatum, the spiny projection neurons (SPNs), which constitute the main cellular input as well as the only output of the striatum. In addition, corticostriatal and thalamostriatal inputs also innervate striatal interneurons. Some of these inputs have been very well studied, for example the thalamic innervation of cholinergic interneurons and the cortical innervation of striatal fast-spiking interneurons, but inputs to most other GABAergic interneurons remain largely unstudied, due in part to the relatively recent identification and characterization of many of these interneurons. In this review, we will discuss and reconcile some older as well as more recent data on the extrinsic excitatory inputs to striatal interneurons. We propose that the traditional feed-forward inhibitory model of the cortical input to the fast-spiking interneuron then inhibiting the SPN, often assumed to be the prototype of the main functional organization of striatal interneurons, is incomplete. We provide evidence that the extrinsic innervation of striatal interneurons is not uniform but shows great cell-type specificity. In addition, we will review data showing that striatal interneurons are themselves interconnected in a highly cell-type-specific manner. These data suggest that the impact of the extrinsic inputs on striatal activity critically depends on synaptic interactions within interneuronal circuitry.
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- Maxime Assous
- Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 197 University Avenue, Newark, NJ, 07102, USA
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- Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 197 University Avenue, Newark, NJ, 07102, USA
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Jo HJ, McCairn KW, Gibson WS, Testini P, Zhao CZ, Gorny KR, Felmlee JP, Welker KM, Blaha CD, Klassen BT, Min HK, Lee KH. Global network modulation during thalamic stimulation for Tourette syndrome. NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL 2018; 18:502-509. [PMID: 29560306 PMCID: PMC5857897 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2018.02.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2018] [Revised: 02/09/2018] [Accepted: 02/18/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Abstract
Background and objectives Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the thalamus is a promising therapeutic alternative for treating medically refractory Tourette syndrome (TS). However, few human studies have examined its mechanism of action. Therefore, the networks that mediate the therapeutic effects of thalamic DBS remain poorly understood. Methods Five participants diagnosed with severe medically refractory TS underwent bilateral thalamic DBS stereotactic surgery. Intraoperative fMRI characterized the blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) response evoked by thalamic DBS and determined whether the therapeutic effectiveness of thalamic DBS, as assessed using the Modified Rush Video Rating Scale test, would correlate with evoked BOLD responses in motor and limbic cortical and subcortical regions. Results Our results reveal that thalamic stimulation in TS participants has wide-ranging effects that impact the frontostriatal, limbic, and motor networks. Thalamic stimulation induced suppression of motor and insula networks correlated with motor tic reduction, while suppression of frontal and parietal networks correlated with vocal tic reduction. These regions mapped closely to major regions of interest (ROI) identified in a nonhuman primate model of TS. Conclusions Overall, these findings suggest that a critical factor in TS treatment should involve modulation of both frontostriatal and motor networks, rather than be treated as a focal disorder of the brain. Using the novel combination of DBS-evoked tic reduction and fMRI in human subjects, we provide new insights into the basal ganglia-cerebellar-thalamo-cortical network-level mechanisms that influence the effects of thalamic DBS. Future translational research should identify whether these network changes are cause or effect of TS symptoms.
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- Hang Joon Jo
- Department of Neurologic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA; Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- Systems Neuroscience Section, Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Inuyama, Aichi 484-8506, Japan
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- Department of Neurologic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- Department of Neurologic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- Department of Neurologic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- Department of Neurologic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA; Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA; Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
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- Department of Neurologic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA; Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
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Zhai S, Tanimura A, Graves SM, Shen W, Surmeier DJ. Striatal synapses, circuits, and Parkinson's disease. Curr Opin Neurobiol 2017; 48:9-16. [PMID: 28843800 DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2017.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2017] [Accepted: 08/03/2017] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The striatum is a hub in the basal ganglia circuitry controlling goal directed actions and habits. The loss of its dopaminergic (DAergic) innervation in Parkinson's disease (PD) disrupts the ability of the two principal striatal projection systems to respond appropriately to cortical and thalamic signals, resulting in the hypokinetic features of the disease. New tools to study brain circuitry have led to significant advances in our understanding of striatal circuits and how they adapt in PD models. This short review summarizes some of these recent studies and the gaps that remain to be filled.
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- Shenyu Zhai
- Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
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Toluene's effects on activity and extracellular dopamine in the mouse are altered by GABA A antagonism. Neurosci Lett 2017; 647:67-71. [PMID: 28288863 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2017.03.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2016] [Revised: 02/16/2017] [Accepted: 03/02/2017] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The abuse of inhalants like toluene continues to be widespread around the world, especially among children and teenagers. Despite its frequency of misuse, the dynamics between dopamine (DA) and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in response to toluene exposure remains unclear. To further decipher toluene's actions, we used a dynamic exposure system in combination with microdialysis to examine in vivo the effects of acutely inhaled toluene on DA release within the mouse caudate putamen (CPu). Results show that toluene inhalation produced increases in DA levels and locomotor activity. In mice that were pretreated with the GABAA antagonist, bicuculline, there was no change in the locomotor response during toluene but activity was potentiated following toluene exposure. Bicuculline pretreatment increased extracellular DA levels during toluene exposure, suggesting that DA and GABA-releasing neuron interaction may play a role in the rewarding properties of toluene.
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Two spatiotemporally distinct value systems shape reward-based learning in the human brain. Nat Commun 2015; 6:8107. [PMID: 26348160 PMCID: PMC4569710 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2015] [Accepted: 07/20/2015] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Avoiding repeated mistakes and learning to reinforce rewarding decisions is critical for human survival and adaptive actions. Yet, the neural underpinnings of the value systems that encode different decision-outcomes remain elusive. Here coupling single-trial electroencephalography with simultaneously acquired functional magnetic resonance imaging, we uncover the spatiotemporal dynamics of two separate but interacting value systems encoding decision-outcomes. Consistent with a role in regulating alertness and switching behaviours, an early system is activated only by negative outcomes and engages arousal-related and motor-preparatory brain structures. Consistent with a role in reward-based learning, a later system differentially suppresses or activates regions of the human reward network in response to negative and positive outcomes, respectively. Following negative outcomes, the early system interacts and downregulates the late system, through a thalamic interaction with the ventral striatum. Critically, the strength of this coupling predicts participants' switching behaviour and avoidance learning, directly implicating the thalamostriatal pathway in reward-based learning.
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Faust TW, Assous M, Shah F, Tepper JM, Koós T. Novel fast adapting interneurons mediate cholinergic-induced fast GABAA inhibitory postsynaptic currents in striatal spiny neurons. Eur J Neurosci 2015; 42:1764-74. [PMID: 25865337 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2014] [Revised: 03/29/2015] [Accepted: 04/07/2015] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
Previous work suggests that neostriatal cholinergic interneurons control the activity of several classes of GABAergic interneurons through fast nicotinic receptor-mediated synaptic inputs. Although indirect evidence has suggested the existence of several classes of interneurons controlled by this mechanism, only one such cell type, the neuropeptide-Y-expressing neurogliaform neuron, has been identified to date. Here we tested the hypothesis that in addition to the neurogliaform neurons that elicit slow GABAergic inhibitory responses, another interneuron type exists in the striatum that receives strong nicotinic cholinergic input and elicits conventional fast GABAergic synaptic responses in projection neurons. We obtained in vitro slice recordings from double transgenic mice in which Channelrhodopsin-2 was natively expressed in cholinergic neurons and a population of serotonin receptor-3a-Cre-expressing GABAergic interneurons were visualized with tdTomato. We show that among the targeted GABAergic interneurons a novel type of interneuron, termed the fast-adapting interneuron, can be identified that is distinct from previously known interneurons based on immunocytochemical and electrophysiological criteria. We show using optogenetic activation of cholinergic inputs that fast-adapting interneurons receive a powerful supra-threshold nicotinic cholinergic input in vitro. Moreover, fast adapting neurons are densely connected to projection neurons and elicit fast, GABAA receptor-mediated inhibitory postsynaptic current responses. The nicotinic receptor-mediated activation of fast-adapting interneurons may constitute an important mechanism through which cholinergic interneurons control the activity of projection neurons and perhaps the plasticity of their synaptic inputs when animals encounter reinforcing or otherwise salient stimuli.
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- Thomas W Faust
- Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 197 University Avenue, Newark, NJ, 07102, USA
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- Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 197 University Avenue, Newark, NJ, 07102, USA
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- Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 197 University Avenue, Newark, NJ, 07102, USA
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- Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 197 University Avenue, Newark, NJ, 07102, USA
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- Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 197 University Avenue, Newark, NJ, 07102, USA
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Striatal cholinergic dysfunction as a unifying theme in the pathophysiology of dystonia. Prog Neurobiol 2015; 127-128:91-107. [PMID: 25697043 DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2015.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2014] [Revised: 02/05/2015] [Accepted: 02/07/2015] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Dystonia is a movement disorder of both genetic and non-genetic causes, which typically results in twisted posturing due to abnormal muscle contraction. Evidence from dystonia patients and animal models of dystonia indicate a crucial role for the striatal cholinergic system in the pathophysiology of dystonia. In this review, we focus on striatal circuitry and the centrality of the acetylcholine system in the function of the basal ganglia in the control of voluntary movement and ultimately clinical manifestation of movement disorders. We consider the impact of cholinergic interneurons (ChIs) on dopamine-acetylcholine interactions and examine new evidence for impairment of ChIs in dysfunction of the motor systems producing dystonic movements, particularly in animal models. We have observed paradoxical excitation of ChIs in the presence of dopamine D2 receptor agonists and impairment of striatal synaptic plasticity in a mouse model of DYT1 dystonia, which are improved by administration of recently developed M1 receptor antagonists. These findings have been confirmed across multiple animal models of DYT1 dystonia and may represent a common endophenotype by which to investigate dystonia induced by other types of genetic and non-genetic causes and to investigate the potential effectiveness of pharmacotherapeutics and other strategies to improve dystonia.
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Smith Y, Galvan A, Ellender TJ, Doig N, Villalba RM, Huerta-Ocampo I, Wichmann T, Bolam JP. The thalamostriatal system in normal and diseased states. Front Syst Neurosci 2014; 8:5. [PMID: 24523677 PMCID: PMC3906602 DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 150] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2013] [Accepted: 01/11/2014] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Because of our limited knowledge of the functional role of the thalamostriatal system, this massive network is often ignored in models of the pathophysiology of brain disorders of basal ganglia origin, such as Parkinson's disease (PD). However, over the past decade, significant advances have led to a deeper understanding of the anatomical, electrophysiological, behavioral and pathological aspects of the thalamostriatal system. The cloning of the vesicular glutamate transporters 1 and 2 (vGluT1 and vGluT2) has provided powerful tools to differentiate thalamostriatal from corticostriatal glutamatergic terminals, allowing us to carry out comparative studies of the synaptology and plasticity of these two systems in normal and pathological conditions. Findings from these studies have led to the recognition of two thalamostriatal systems, based on their differential origin from the caudal intralaminar nuclear group, the center median/parafascicular (CM/Pf) complex, or other thalamic nuclei. The recent use of optogenetic methods supports this model of the organization of the thalamostriatal systems, showing differences in functionality and glutamate receptor localization at thalamostriatal synapses from Pf and other thalamic nuclei. At the functional level, evidence largely gathered from thalamic recordings in awake monkeys strongly suggests that the thalamostriatal system from the CM/Pf is involved in regulating alertness and switching behaviors. Importantly, there is evidence that the caudal intralaminar nuclei and their axonal projections to the striatum partly degenerate in PD and that CM/Pf deep brain stimulation (DBS) may be therapeutically useful in several movement disorders.
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- Yoland Smith
- Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University Atlanta, GA, USA ; Department of Neurology, Emory University Atlanta, GA, USA ; Udall Center of Excellence for Parkinson's Disease, Emory University Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University Atlanta, GA, USA ; Department of Neurology, Emory University Atlanta, GA, USA ; Udall Center of Excellence for Parkinson's Disease, Emory University Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit Oxford, UK
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- Department of Pharmacology, MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit Oxford, UK
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- Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University Atlanta, GA, USA ; Udall Center of Excellence for Parkinson's Disease, Emory University Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University Atlanta, GA, USA ; Department of Neurology, Emory University Atlanta, GA, USA ; Udall Center of Excellence for Parkinson's Disease, Emory University Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit Oxford, UK
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Villalba RM, Wichmann T, Smith Y. Neuronal loss in the caudal intralaminar thalamic nuclei in a primate model of Parkinson's disease. Brain Struct Funct 2014; 219:381-94. [PMID: 23508713 PMCID: PMC3864539 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-013-0507-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2012] [Accepted: 01/06/2013] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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In light of postmortem human studies showing extensive degeneration of the center median (CM) and parafascicular (Pf) thalamic nuclei in Parkinson's disease patients, the present study assessed the extent of neuronal loss in CM/Pf of non-human primates that were rendered parkinsonian by repeated injections of low doses of 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP). In order to determine the course of CM/Pf degeneration during the MPTP intoxication, motor-asymptomatic animals with partial striatal dopamine denervation were also used. The Cavalieri's principle for volume estimation and the unbiased stereological cell count method with the optical dissector technique were used to estimate the total number of neurons in the CM/Pf. We found substantial neurons loss in the CM/Pf in both, motor-symptomatic MPTP-treated monkeys in which the striatal dopamine innervation was reduced by more than 80%, and in motor-asymptomatic MPTP-treated animals with 40-50% striatal dopamine loss. In MPTP-treated parkinsonian monkeys, 60 and 62% neurons loss was found in CM and Pf, respectively, while partially dopamine-depleted asymptomatic animals displayed 59 and 52% neurons loss in the CM and Pf, respectively. Thus, our study demonstrates that the CM/Pf neurons loss is an early phenomenon that occurs prior to the development of parkinsonian motor symptoms in these animals. In contrast, the neighboring mediodorsal nucleus of the thalamus was only mildly affected (18% neurons loss) in the parkinsonian monkeys. Together with recent findings about the possible role of the CM/Pf-striatal system in cognition, our findings suggest that the pathology of the thalamostriatal system may precede the development of motor symptoms in PD, and may account for some of the cognitive deficits in attentional set-shifting often seen in these patients. Future studies in this animal model, and in monkeys with selective lesion of CM or Pf, are needed to further elucidate the role of the CM/Pf-striatal system in normal and parkinsonian conditions.
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- R. M. Villalba
- Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, 954 Gatewood Rd. NE, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA, , Udall Center of Excellence for Parkinson's Disease Research, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, 954 Gatewood Rd. NE, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA, , Udall Center of Excellence for Parkinson's Disease Research, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USADepartment of Neurology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, 954 Gatewood Rd. NE, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA, , Udall Center of Excellence for Parkinson's Disease Research, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA, Department of Neurology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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Kim JP, Min HK, Knight EJ, Duffy PS, Abulseoud OA, Marsh MP, Kelsey K, Blaha CD, Bennet KE, Frye MA, Lee KH. Centromedian-parafascicular deep brain stimulation induces differential functional inhibition of the motor, associative, and limbic circuits in large animals. Biol Psychiatry 2013; 74:917-926. [PMID: 23993641 PMCID: PMC3910443 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2013.06.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2012] [Revised: 06/05/2013] [Accepted: 06/19/2013] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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BACKGROUND Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the centromedian-parafascicular (CM-Pf) thalamic nuclei has been considered an option for treating Tourette syndrome. Using a large animal DBS model, this study was designed to explore the network effects of CM-Pf DBS. METHODS The combination of DBS and functional magnetic resonance imaging is a powerful means of tracing brain circuitry and testing the modulatory effects of electrical stimulation on a neuronal network in vivo. With a within-subjects design, we tested the proportional effects of CM and Pf DBS by manipulating current spread and varying stimulation contacts in healthy pigs (n = 5). RESULTS Our results suggests that CM-Pf DBS has an inhibitory modulating effect in areas that have been suggested as contributing to impaired sensory-motor and emotional processing. The results also help to define the differential neural circuitry effects of the CM and Pf with evidence of prominent sensorimotor/associative effects for CM DBS and prominent limbic/associative effects for Pf DBS. CONCLUSIONS Our results support the notion that stimulation of deep brain structures, such as the CM-Pf, modulates multiple networks with cortical effects. The networks affected by CM-Pf stimulation in this study reinforce the conceptualization of Tourette syndrome as a condition with psychiatric and motor symptoms and of CM-Pf DBS as a potentially effective tool for treating both types of symptoms.
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- Joo Pyung Kim
- Department of Neurologic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA, Department of Neurosurgery, CHA University, Bundang CHA Medical Center, Sungnam, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Neurologic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA, Division of Engineering, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA, Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Neurologic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Neurologic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Neurologic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Neurologic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA
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- Department of Neurologic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA, Division of Engineering, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Neurologic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA, Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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Ünal B, Shah F, Kothari J, Tepper JM. Anatomical and electrophysiological changes in striatal TH interneurons after loss of the nigrostriatal dopaminergic pathway. Brain Struct Funct 2013; 220:331-49. [PMID: 24173616 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-013-0658-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2013] [Accepted: 10/11/2013] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Using transgenic mice that express enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) under the control of the tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) promoter, we have previously shown that there are approximately 3,000 striatal EGFP-TH interneurons per hemisphere in mice. Here, we report that striatal TH-EGFP interneurons exhibit a small, transient but significant increase in number after unilateral destruction of the nigrostriatal dopaminergic pathway. The increase in cell number is accompanied by electrophysiological and morphological changes. The intrinsic electrophysiological properties of EGFP-TH interneurons ipsilateral to 6-OHDA lesion were similar to those originally reported in intact mice except for a significant reduction in the duration of a characteristic depolarization induced plateau potential. There was a significant change in the distribution of the four previously described electrophysiologically distinct subtypes of striatal TH interneurons. There was a concomitant increase in the frequency of both spontaneous excitatory and inhibitory post-synaptic currents, while their amplitudes did not change. Nigrostriatal lesions did not affect somatic size or dendritic length or branching, but resulted in an increase in the density of proximal dendritic spines and spine-like appendages in EGFP-TH interneurons. The changes indicate that electrophysiology properties and morphology of striatal EGFP-TH interneurons depend on endogenous levels of dopamine arising from the nigrostriatal pathway. Furthermore, these changes may serve to help compensate for the changes in activity of spiny projection neurons that occur following loss of the nigrostriatal innervation in experimental or in early idiopathic Parkinson's disease by increasing feedforward GABAergic inhibition exerted by these interneurons.
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- Bengi Ünal
- Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Aidekman Research Center, Rutgers University, 197 University Avenue, Newark, NJ, 07102, USA
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Galvan A, Smith Y. The primate thalamostriatal systems: Anatomical organization, functional roles and possible involvement in Parkinson's disease. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011; 1:179-189. [PMID: 22773963 DOI: 10.1016/j.baga.2011.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The striatum receives glutamatergic inputs from two main thalamostriatal systems that originate either from the centre median/parafascicular complex (CM/PF-striatal system) or the rostral intralaminar, midline, associative and relay thalamic nuclei (non-CM/PF-striatal system). These dual thalamostriatal systems display striking differences in their anatomical and, most likely, functional organization. The CM/PF-striatal system is topographically organized, and integrated within functionally segregated basal ganglia-thalamostriatal circuits that process sensorimotor, associative and limbic information. CM/PF neurons are highly responsive to attention-related sensory stimuli, suggesting that the CM/PF-striatal system, through its strong connections with cholinergic interneurons, may play a role in basal ganglia-mediated learning, behavioral switching and reinforcement. In light of evidence for prominent CM/PF neuronal loss in Parkinson's disease, we propose that the significant CM-striatal system degeneration, combined with the severe nigrostriatal dopamine loss in sensorimotor striatal regions, may alter normal automatic actions, and shift the processing of basal ganglia-thalamocortical motor programs towards goal-directed behaviors.
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- Adriana Galvan
- Yerkes National Primate Research Center, 954 Gatewood Road NE, Emory University Atlanta, GA 30329, USA; and Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Emory University, 101 Woodruff Circle, Atlanta GA 30322 USA
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Farrar AM, Callahan JW, Abercrombie ED. Reduced striatal acetylcholine efflux in the R6/2 mouse model of Huntington's disease: an examination of the role of altered inhibitory and excitatory mechanisms. Exp Neurol 2011; 232:119-25. [PMID: 21864528 DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2011.08.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2011] [Revised: 07/25/2011] [Accepted: 08/08/2011] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Huntington's disease (HD) is a genetic neurodegenerative disorder that is characterized by the progressive onset of cognitive, psychiatric, and motor symptoms. In parallel, the neuropathology of HD is characterized by progressive loss of projection neurons in cortex and striatum; striatal cholinergic interneurons are relatively spared. Nonetheless, there is evidence that striatal acetylcholine (ACh) function is altered in HD. The present study is the first to examine striatal ACh function in awake, behaving animals, using the R6/2 mouse model of HD, which is transgenic for exon 1 of the mutant huntingtin gene. Physiological levels of extracellular striatal ACh were monitored in R6/2 mice and wild type controls using in vivo microdialysis. Results indicate that spontaneous ACh release is reduced in R6/2 mice relative to controls. Intrastriatal application of the GABA(A) antagonist bicuculline methiodide (10.0 μM) significantly elevated ACh levels in both R6/2 mice and wild type controls, while overall ACh levels were reduced in the R6/2 mice compared to the wild type group. In contrast, systemic administration of the D(1) dopamine receptor partial agonist, SKF-38393 (10.0mg/kg, IP), elevated ACh levels in control animals, but not R6/2 mice. Taken together, the present results suggest that GABA-mediated inhibition of striatal ACh release is intact in R6/2 mice, further demonstrating that cholinergic interneurons are capable of increased ACh release, whereas D(1) receptor-dependent activation of excitatory inputs to striatal cholinergic interneurons is dysfunctional in R6/2 mice. Reduced levels of extracellular striatal ACh in HD may reflect abnormalities in the excitatory innervation of cholinergic interneurons, which may have implications ACh-dependent processes that are altered in HD, including corticostriatal plasticity.
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- Andrew M Farrar
- Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ 07102, USA.
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Ashby FG, Crossley MJ. A computational model of how cholinergic interneurons protect striatal-dependent learning. J Cogn Neurosci 2010; 23:1549-66. [PMID: 20521851 DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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An essential component of skill acquisition is learning the environmental conditions in which that skill is relevant. This article proposes and tests a neurobiologically detailed theory of how such learning is mediated. The theory assumes that a key component of this learning is provided by the cholinergic interneurons in the striatum known as tonically active neurons (TANs). The TANs are assumed to exert a tonic inhibitory influence over cortical inputs to the striatum that prevents the execution of any striatal-dependent actions. The TANs learn to pause in rewarding environments, and this pause releases the striatal output neurons from this inhibitory effect, thereby facilitating the learning and expression of striatal-dependent behaviors. When rewards are no longer available, the TANs cease to pause, which protects striatal learning from decay. A computational version of this theory accounts for a variety of single-cell recording data and some classic behavioral phenomena, including fast reacquisition after extinction.
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- F Gregory Ashby
- Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.
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Balleine BW, O'Doherty JP. Human and rodent homologies in action control: corticostriatal determinants of goal-directed and habitual action. Neuropsychopharmacology 2010; 35:48-69. [PMID: 19776734 PMCID: PMC3055420 DOI: 10.1038/npp.2009.131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1162] [Impact Index Per Article: 83.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2009] [Revised: 07/29/2009] [Accepted: 07/30/2009] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Recent behavioral studies in both humans and rodents have found evidence that performance in decision-making tasks depends on two different learning processes; one encoding the relationship between actions and their consequences and a second involving the formation of stimulus-response associations. These learning processes are thought to govern goal-directed and habitual actions, respectively, and have been found to depend on homologous corticostriatal networks in these species. Thus, recent research using comparable behavioral tasks in both humans and rats has implicated homologous regions of cortex (medial prefrontal cortex/medial orbital cortex in humans and prelimbic cortex in rats) and of dorsal striatum (anterior caudate in humans and dorsomedial striatum in rats) in goal-directed action and in the control of habitual actions (posterior lateral putamen in humans and dorsolateral striatum in rats). These learning processes have been argued to be antagonistic or competing because their control over performance appears to be all or none. Nevertheless, evidence has started to accumulate suggesting that they may at times compete and at others cooperate in the selection and subsequent evaluation of actions necessary for normal choice performance. It appears likely that cooperation or competition between these sources of action control depends not only on local interactions in dorsal striatum but also on the cortico-basal ganglia network within which the striatum is embedded and that mediates the integration of learning with basic motivational and emotional processes. The neural basis of the integration of learning and motivation in choice and decision-making is still controversial and we review some recent hypotheses relating to this issue.
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- Bernard W Balleine
- Brain and Mind Research Institute, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia.
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Kusnoor SV, Muly EC, Morgan JI, Deutch AY. Is the loss of thalamostriatal neurons protective in parkinsonism? Parkinsonism Relat Disord 2009; 15 Suppl 3:S162-6. [PMID: 20082981 PMCID: PMC2900831 DOI: 10.1016/s1353-8020(09)70806-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Neuronal loss in Parkinson's disease (PD) is more widespread than originally thought. Among the extrastriatal sites in which significant loss of neurons has been reported is the centremedian-parafascicular (CM-PF) complex of the thalamus, which provides one of the three major afferent sources to the striatum. The functional significance of CM-PF loss in PD is unclear. Interestingly, several recent small trials have suggested that deep brain stimulation of the CM-PF improves motor function in PD. We discuss the possible transsynaptic determination of CM-PF loss secondary to nigrostriatal dopamine degeneration, and suggest that expression of the glycoprotein cerebellin1 (Cbln1) in CM-PF neurons may play an important role in striatal synaptic remodeling in parkinsonism.
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- Sheila V. Kusnoor
- Program in Neuroscience and Departments of Psychiatry and Pharmacology Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, TN 37212 USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Emory University School of Medicine Atlanta, GA 30322 USA
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- Department of Developmental Neurobiology St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Memphis, TN 38105 USA
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- Program in Neuroscience and Departments of Psychiatry and Pharmacology Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, TN 37212 USA
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Balleine BW, Liljeholm M, Ostlund SB. The integrative function of the basal ganglia in instrumental conditioning. Behav Brain Res 2009; 199:43-52. [PMID: 19027797 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.10.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 248] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2008] [Revised: 10/24/2008] [Accepted: 10/25/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Recent research in instrumental conditioning has focused on the striatum, particularly the role of the dorsal striatum in the learning processes that contribute to instrumental performance in rats. This research has found evidence of what appear to be parallel, functionally and anatomically distinct circuits involving dorsomedial striatum (DMS) and dorsolateral striatum (DLS) that contribute to two independent instrumental learning processes. Evidence suggests that the formation of the critical action-outcome associations mediating goal-directed action are localized to the dorsomedial striatum, whereas the sensorimotor connections that control the performance of habitual actions are localized to the dorsolateral striatum. In addition to the dorsal striatum, these learning processes appear to engage distinct cortico-striatal networks and to be embedded in a complex of converging and partially segregated loops that constitute the cortico-striatal thalamo-cortical feedback circuit. As the entry point for the basal ganglia, cortical circuits involving the dorsal striatum are clearly in a position to control a variety of motor functions but, as recent studies of various neurodegenerative disorders have made clear, they are also involved in a number of cognitive and executive functions including action selection, planning, and decision-making.
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- Bernard W Balleine
- Department of Psychology and the Brain Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
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Nanda B, Galvan A, Smith Y, Wichmann T. Effects of stimulation of the centromedian nucleus of the thalamus on the activity of striatal cells in awake rhesus monkeys. Eur J Neurosci 2009; 29:588-98. [PMID: 19175404 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06598.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Although the existence of a massive projection from the caudal intralaminar nuclei of the thalamus [i.e. the centromedian (CM) and parafascicular nuclei] to the striatum is well documented, the effects of CM activation upon striatal cells remain poorly understood. Therefore, we studied the effects of electrical stimulation of CM on the electrophysiological activity of striatal neurons, and on striatal levels of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and acetylcholine in rhesus monkeys. Striatal cells did not respond to single-pulse stimulation (bipolar biphasic stimulation, 175-500 muA), but the large majority of recorded neurons responded to burst stimulation (100 Hz, 1 s, 150-175 muA) of CM, often with a delay of tens of milliseconds. Striatal phasically active neurons, which likely correspond to projection neurons, responded mainly with increases in firing (13/28 cells), while tonically active neurons (likely cholinergic interneurons) often showed combinations of increases and decreases in firing (24/46 cells). In microdialysis studies, CM stimulation led to a reduction of striatal acetylcholine levels. This effect was prevented by addition of the GABA-A receptor antagonist gabazine to the microdialysis fluid. We conclude that CM stimulation frequently results in striatal response patterns with excitatory and inhibitory components. Under the conditions chosen here, the specific patterns of striatal responses to CM stimulation are likely the result of striatal processing of thalamic inputs. Through these indirect effects, local CM stimulation may engage large portions of the striatum. These effects may be relevant in the interpretation of the therapeutic effects of CM stimulation for the treatment of neurological disorders.
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- Bijli Nanda
- Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA
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Mabrouk OS, Volta M, Marti M, Morari M. Stimulation of delta opioid receptors located in substantia nigra reticulata but not globus pallidus or striatum restores motor activity in 6-hydroxydopamine lesioned rats: new insights into the role of delta receptors in parkinsonism. J Neurochem 2008; 107:1647-59. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2008.05727.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Sadikot AF, Rymar VV. The primate centromedian-parafascicular complex: anatomical organization with a note on neuromodulation. Brain Res Bull 2008; 78:122-30. [PMID: 18957319 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2008.09.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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In addition to the cerebral cortex, the striatum receives excitatory input from the thalamus. The centromedian (centre median, CM) and parafascicular (Pf) nuclei are an important source of thalamostriatal projections. Anterograde tract-tracing indicates the CM-Pf complex provides dense afferents to the matrix compartment of the striatum. Whereas CM projects to the entire sensorimotor territory of the striatum, the Pf provides complementary input to the entire associative sector. The Pf also provides lighter input to the nucleus accumbens. Both CM and Pf provide light to moderately dense inputs to other components of the basal ganglia in a largely complementary manner, covering motor or associative-limbic territories of the subthalamic nucleus, globus pallidus and ventral midbrain. In turn, the CM and Pf receive mainly segregated input from parallel motor and associative-limbic circuits of the basal ganglia. The CM and Pf may therefore be considered important participants in parallel processing of motor and associative-limbic information in the basal ganglia. Connections of the CM and Pf with other thalamic nuclei suggest they also participate in integrative functions within the thalamus. In addition, inputs from the brainstem reticular core, reciprocal connections with the cerebral cortex and reticular thalamic nucleus suggest a role in state-dependant information processing. Consideration of the differential connections of the CM and Pf, and better understanding of their role in pathophysiology, may eventually lead to development of an important new target for relief of a variety of neurological and psychiatric disorders.
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- Abbas F Sadikot
- Montreal Neurological Institute, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, 3801 University Street, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2B4.
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Cohen MX, Frank MJ. Neurocomputational models of basal ganglia function in learning, memory and choice. Behav Brain Res 2008; 199:141-56. [PMID: 18950662 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.09.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2008] [Revised: 09/24/2008] [Accepted: 09/24/2008] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The basal ganglia (BG) are critical for the coordination of several motor, cognitive, and emotional functions and become dysfunctional in several pathological states ranging from Parkinson's disease to Schizophrenia. Here we review principles developed within a neurocomputational framework of BG and related circuitry which provide insights into their functional roles in behavior. We focus on two classes of models: those that incorporate aspects of biological realism and constrained by functional principles, and more abstract mathematical models focusing on the higher level computational goals of the BG. While the former are arguably more "realistic", the latter have a complementary advantage in being able to describe functional principles of how the system works in a relatively simple set of equations, but are less suited to making specific hypotheses about the roles of specific nuclei and neurophysiological processes. We review the basic architecture and assumptions of these models, their relevance to our understanding of the neurobiological and cognitive functions of the BG, and provide an update on the potential roles of biological details not explicitly incorporated in existing models. Empirical studies ranging from those in transgenic mice to dopaminergic manipulation, deep brain stimulation, and genetics in humans largely support model predictions and provide the basis for further refinement. Finally, we discuss possible future directions and possible ways to integrate different types of models.
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- Michael X Cohen
- Department of Psychology, Program in Neuroscience, University of Arizona, 1503 E University Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85721, United States
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The thalamostriatal systems: anatomical and functional organization in normal and parkinsonian states. Brain Res Bull 2008; 78:60-8. [PMID: 18805468 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2008.08.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 150] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Although we have gained significant knowledge in the anatomy and microcircuitry of the thalamostriatal system over the last decades, the exact function(s) of these complex networks remain(s) poorly understood. It is now clear that the thalamostriatal system is not a unique entity, but consists of multiple neural systems that originate from a wide variety of thalamic nuclei and terminate in functionally segregated striatal territories. The primary source of thalamostriatal projections is the caudal intralaminar nuclear group which, in primates, comprises the centromedian and parafascicular nuclei (CM/Pf). These two nuclei provide massive, functionally organized glutamatergic inputs to the whole striatal complex. There are several anatomical and physiological features that distinguish this system from other thalamostriatal projections. Although all glutamatergic thalamostriatal neurons express vGluT2 and release glutamate as neurotransmitter, CM/Pf neurons target preferentially the dendritic shafts of striatal projection neurons, whereas all other thalamic inputs are almost exclusively confined to the head of dendritic spines. This anatomic arrangement suggests that transmission of input from sources other than CM/Pf to the striatal neurons is likely regulated by dopaminergic afferents in the same manner as cortical inputs, while the CM/Pf axo-dendritic synapses do not display any particular relationships with dopaminergic terminals. A better understanding of the role of these systems in the functional circuitry of the basal ganglia relies on future research of the physiology and pathophysiology of these networks in normal and pathological basal ganglia conditions. Although much remains to be known about the role of these systems, recent electrophysiological studies from awake monkeys have provided convincing evidence that the CM/Pf-striatal system is the entrance for attention-related stimuli to the basal ganglia circuits. However, the processing and transmission of this information likely involves intrinsic GABAergic and cholinergic striatal networks, thereby setting the stage for complex physiological responses of striatal output neurons to CM/Pf activation. Finally, another exciting development that will surely generate significant interest towards the thalamostriatal systems in years to come is the possibility that CM/Pf may be a potential surgical target for movement disorders, most particularly Tourette syndrome and Parkinson's disease. Although the available clinical evidence is encouraging, these procedures remain empirical at this stage because of the limited understanding of the thalamostriatal systems.
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Tan CO, Bullock D. A dopamine-acetylcholine cascade: simulating learned and lesion-induced behavior of striatal cholinergic interneurons. J Neurophysiol 2008; 100:2409-21. [PMID: 18715897 DOI: 10.1152/jn.90486.2008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The giant cholinergic interneurons of the striatum are tonically active neurons (TANs) that respond with pauses to appetitive and aversive cues and to novel events. Whereas tonic activity emerges from intrinsic properties of these neurons, glutamatergic inputs from intralaminar thalamic nuclei and dopaminergic inputs from midbrain are required for genesis of pause responses. No prior computational models encompass both intrinsic and synaptically gated dynamics. We present a mathematical model that robustly accounts for behavior-related electrophysiological properties of TANs in terms of their intrinsic physiological properties and known afferents. In the model, balanced intrinsic hyperpolarizing and depolarizing currents engender tonic firing and glutamatergic inputs from thalamus (and cortex) both directly excite and indirectly inhibit TANs. If this inhibition, probably mediated by GABAergic nitric oxide synthase interneurons, exceeds a threshold, a persistent K+ conductance current amplifies its effect to generate a prolonged pause. Dopamine (DA) signals modulate both the intrinsic mechanisms and the external inputs of TANs. Simulations revealed that many learning-dependent behaviors of TANs, including acquired pauses to task-relevant cues, are explicable without recourse to learning-dependent changes in synapses onto TANs, due to a tight coupling between DA bursts and TAN pauses. These interactions imply that reward-predicting cues often cause striatal projection neurons to receive a cascade of signals: an adaptively scaled DA burst, a brief acetylcholine (ACh) burst, and an ACh pause. A sensitivity analysis revealed a unique TAN response surface, which shows that DA inputs robustly cooperate with thalamic inputs to control cue-dependent pauses of ACh release, which strongly affects performance- and learning-related dynamics in the striatum.
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- Can Ozan Tan
- Cognitive and Neural Systems Department, Boston University, 677 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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Cholinergic innervation and thalamic input in rat nucleus accumbens. J Chem Neuroanat 2008; 37:33-45. [PMID: 18773952 DOI: 10.1016/j.jchemneu.2008.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2008] [Revised: 07/08/2008] [Accepted: 08/09/2008] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Cholinergic interneurons are the only known source of acetylcholine in the rat nucleus accumbens (nAcb); yet there is little anatomical data about their mode of innervation and the origin of their excitatory drive. We characterized the cholinergic and thalamic innervations of nAcb with choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) immunocytochemistry and anterograde transport of Phaseolus vulgaris-leucoagglutinin (PHA-L) from the midline/intralaminar/paraventricular thalamic nuclei. The use of a monoclonal ChAT antiserum against whole rat ChAT protein allowed for an optimal visualization of the small dendritic branches and fine varicose axons of cholinergic interneurons. PHA-L-labeled thalamic afferents were heterogeneously distributed throughout the core and shell regions of nAcb, overlapping regionally with cholinergic somata and dendrites. At the ultrastructural level, several hundred single-section profiles of PHA-L and ChAT-labeled axon terminals were analyzed for morphology, synaptic frequency, and the nature of their synaptic targets. The cholinergic profiles were small and apposed to various neuronal elements, but rarely exhibited a synaptic membrane specialization (5% in single ultrathin sections). Stereological extrapolation indicated that less than 15% of these cholinergic varicosities were synaptic. The PHA-L-labeled profiles were comparatively large and often synaptic (37% in single ultrathin sections), making asymmetrical contacts primarily with dendritic spines (>90%). Stereological extrapolation indicated that all PHA-L-labeled terminals were synaptic. In double-labeled material, some PHA-L-labeled terminals were directly apposed to ChAT-labeled somata or dendrites, but synapses were never seen between the two types of elements. These observations demonstrate that the cholinergic innervation of rat nAcb is largely asynaptic. They confirm that the afferents from midline/intralaminar/paraventricular thalamic nuclei to rat nAcb synapse mostly on dendritic spines, presumably of medium spiny neurons, and suggest that the excitatory drive of nAcb cholinergic interneurons from thalamus is indirect, either via substance P release from recurrent collaterals of medium spiny neurons and/or by extrasynaptic diffusion of glutamate.
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Darbin O, Wichmann T. Effects of Striatal GABAA-Receptor Blockade on Striatal and Cortical Activity in Monkeys. J Neurophysiol 2008; 99:1294-305. [DOI: 10.1152/jn.01191.2007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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To elucidate the role of ambient striatal γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in the regulation of neuronal activity in the basal ganglia–thalamocortical circuits, we studied the effects of blocking striatal GABAA receptors on the electrical activities of single striatal neurons, on local field potentials (LFPs) in the striatum, and on motor cortical electroencephalograms (EEGs) in two monkeys. Striatal LFPs were recorded with a device that allowed us to simultaneously record field potentials and apply drugs by reverse microdialysis at the same site. Administration of the GABAA-receptor antagonist gabazine (SR95531, 10 and 500 μM) induced large-amplitude LFP fluctuations at the infusion site, occurring every 2–5 s for about 2 h after the start of the 20-min drug administration. These events were prevented by cotreatment with a GABAA-receptor agonist (muscimol, 100 μM) or a combination of ionotropic glutamate receptor antagonists (CNQX and MK-801, each given at 100 μM). Gabazine (10 μM) also increased the firing of single neurons recorded close to the injection site, but in most cases there was no correlation between single-neuron activity and the concomitantly recorded LFP signals from the same striatal region. In contrast, intrastriatal application of gabazine increased the correlation between striatal LFPs and EEG, and resulted in the appearance of recurrent EEG events that were temporally related to the striatal LFP events. These data provide evidence that a GABAergic “tone” in the monkey striatum controls the spontaneous activity of striatal neurons, as well as the level of striatal and cortical synchrony.
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Hatzipetros T, Yamamoto BK. Dopaminergic and GABAergic modulation of glutamate release from rat subthalamic nucleus efferents to the substantia nigra. Brain Res 2006; 1076:60-7. [PMID: 16680828 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.01.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The regulation of the glutamatergic projection from the subthalamic nucleus (STN) to the substantia nigra (SN) was investigated using dual-probe microdialysis in the awake behaving rat. Reverse dialysis of the cholinergic receptor agonist carbachol (1 mM) into the STN caused an increase in the extracellular concentrations of glutamate and dopamine in the SN. The increase in glutamate was transient and returned toward basal values despite the continued perfusions of the STN with carbachol. Carbachol-stimulated glutamate release was prolonged by perfusion of the selective D2 dopamine receptor antagonist raclopride (100 microM) into the SN and was attenuated by the perfusion of the selective D2-like receptor agonist quinpirole (10 microM). In contrast, perfusion of the D1 dopamine receptor antagonist SCH-23390 (100 microM) did not alter the carbachol-stimulated glutamate release even though it increased basal glutamate concentrations. Perfusion of the GABAA receptor antagonist bicuculline (10 microM) into the SN prolonged the carbachol-stimulated glutamate release in similar fashion as raclopride. The present findings suggest that somatodendritically released dopamine in the SN regulates glutamate release from subthalamic axon terminals by differentially activating dopamine D2 and D1 receptors. Activation of D2 heteroreceptors, located on STN axon terminals, provides a negative feedback control on stimulated subthalamic glutamate release, while D1 receptor activation preferentially regulates basal glutamate concentrations. The findings of the present study also indicate that GABA exerts an inhibitory control on glutamate release in the SN through GABAA receptors.
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- Theo Hatzipetros
- Laboratory of Neurochemistry, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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Mela F, Marti M, Fiorentini C, Missale C, Morari M. Group-II metabotropic glutamate receptors negatively modulate NMDA transmission at striatal cholinergic terminals: Role of P/Q-type high voltage activated Ca++ channels and endogenous dopamine. Mol Cell Neurosci 2006; 31:284-92. [PMID: 16249096 DOI: 10.1016/j.mcn.2005.09.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2005] [Revised: 09/21/2005] [Accepted: 09/26/2005] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Striatal cholinergic nerve terminals express functional group-II metabotropic (mGlu) and NMDA glutamate receptors. To investigate whether these receptors interact to regulate ACh release, LY354740 (a group-II mGlu receptor agonist) and NMDA were co-applied in striatal synaptosomes and slices. LY354740 prevented the NMDA-evoked [3H]-choline release from synaptosomes and ACh release from slices. In synaptosomes, this modulation was prevented by omega-agatoxin IVA, suggesting that it was mediated by P/Q-type high voltage activated Ca++ channels. In slices, LY341495 (a group-II mGlu receptor antagonist) enhanced the NMDA-induced ACh release, suggesting that group-II mGlu receptor activation by endogenous glutamate inhibits NMDA transmission. Co-immunoprecipitation studies excluded direct group-II mGlu-NMDA receptor interactions. Finally, group-II mGlu negative modulation of NMDA transmission was abolished in dopamine-depleted synaptosomes and slices, suggesting that it relied on endogenous dopamine. We conclude that group-II mGlu receptors attenuate NMDA inputs at striatal cholinergic terminals via Ca++ channel modulation and dopamine-sensitive pathways.
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- Flora Mela
- Section of Pharmacology, and Neuroscience Center, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Ferrara, via Fossato di Mortara 17-19, 44100 Ferrara, Italy
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