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Gribkova ED, Lee CA, Brown JW, Cui J, Liu Y, Norekian T, Gillette R. A common modular design of nervous systems originating in soft-bodied invertebrates. Front Physiol 2023; 14:1263453. [PMID: 37854468 PMCID: PMC10579582 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2023.1263453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2023] [Accepted: 09/12/2023] [Indexed: 10/20/2023] Open
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Nervous systems of vertebrates and invertebrates show a common modular theme in the flow of information for cost-benefit decisions. Sensory inputs are incentivized by integrating stimulus qualities with motivation and memory to affect appetitive state, a system of homeostatic drives, and labelled for directionality. Appetitive state determines action responses from a repertory of possibles and transmits the decision to a premotor system that frames the selected action in motor arousal and appropriate postural and locomotion commands. These commands are then sent to the primary motor pattern generators controlling the motorneurons, with feedback at each stage. In the vertebrates, these stages are mediated by forebrain pallial derivatives for incentive and directionality (olfactory bulb, cerebral cortex, pallial amygdala, etc.) interacting with hypothalamus (homeostasis, motivation, and reward) for action selection in the forebrain basal ganglia, the mid/hindbrain reticular formation as a premotor translator for posture, locomotion, and arousal state, and the spinal cord and cranial nuclei as primary motor pattern generators. Gastropods, like the predatory sea slug Pleurobranchaea californica, show a similar organization but with differences that suggest how complex brains evolved from an ancestral soft-bodied bilaterian along with segmentation, jointed skeletons, and complex exteroceptors. Their premotor feeding network combines functions of hypothalamus and basal ganglia for homeostasis, motivation, presumed reward, and action selection for stimulus approach or avoidance. In Pleurobranchaea, the premotor analogy to the vertebrate reticular formation is the bilateral "A-cluster" of cerebral ganglion neurons that controls posture, locomotion, and serotonergic motor arousal. The A-cluster transmits motor commands to the pedal ganglia analogs of the spinal cord, for primary patterned motor output. Apparent pallial precursors are not immediately evident in Pleurobranchaea's central nervous system, but a notable candidate is a subepithelial nerve net in the peripheral head region that integrates chemotactile stimuli for incentive and directionality. Evolutionary centralization of its computational functions may have led to the olfaction-derived pallial forebrain in the ancestor's vertebrate descendants and their analogs in arthropods and annelids.
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- Ekaterina D. Gribkova
- Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
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- Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
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- Stanson Toshok Center for Brain Function and Repair, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, IL, United States
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- Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
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- Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
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- Whitney Laboratory for Marine Biosciences, University of Florida, St. Augustine, FL, United States
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- Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
- Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
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Yamanaka A, Kobayashi S, Matsuo Y, Matsuo R. FxRIamide regulates the oscillatory activity in the olfactory center of the terrestrial slug Limax. Peptides 2021; 141:170541. [PMID: 33775802 DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2021.170541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2021] [Revised: 03/13/2021] [Accepted: 03/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The terrestrial slug Limax acquires odor-aversion memory. The procerebrum is the secondary olfactory center in the brain of Limax, and functions as the locus of the memory formation and storage. The change in the local field potential oscillation in the procerebrum reflects the information processing of the learned odor. However, it is not fully understood what factors, intrinsic or extrinsic in the procerebrum, alter the oscillatory activity and how it is regulated. In the present study, we found that FxRIamide (Phe-x-Arg-Ile-NH2), which was previously identified as a myomodulatory peptide in the gastropod Fusinus ferrugineus, downregulates the oscillatory frequency of the local field potential oscillation in the procerebrum of Limax. FxRIamide peptides were encoded by two distinct transcripts, which exhibit partially overlapping expression patterns in the brain. Immunohistochemical staining revealed a scattered distribution of FxRIamide-expressing neurons in the cell mass layer of the procerebrum, in addition to the ramified innervation of FxRIamidergic neurons in the neuropile layers. Down-regulation of the oscillatory frequency of the local field potential was explained by the inhibitory effects of FxRIamide on the bursting neurons, which are the kernels of the local field potential oscillation in the procerebrum. Our study revealed the previously unidentified role of FxRIamide peptides in the network of interneurons of Limax, and these peptides may play a role in the mnemonic functions of the procerebrum.
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- Amami Yamanaka
- International College of Arts and Sciences, Fukuoka Women's University, 1-1-1 Kasumigaoka, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 813-8529, Japan
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- Kagawa School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima Bunri University, 1314-1 Shido, Sanuki, Kagawa, 769-2193, Japan
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- International College of Arts and Sciences, Fukuoka Women's University, 1-1-1 Kasumigaoka, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 813-8529, Japan
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- International College of Arts and Sciences, Fukuoka Women's University, 1-1-1 Kasumigaoka, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 813-8529, Japan.
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Matsuo Y, Yamanaka A, Matsuo R. RFamidergic neurons in the olfactory centers of the terrestrial slug Limax. ZOOLOGICAL LETTERS 2018; 4:22. [PMID: 30116553 PMCID: PMC6085721 DOI: 10.1186/s40851-018-0108-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2018] [Accepted: 07/31/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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BACKGROUND The terrestrial slug Limax has long been used as a model for the study of olfactory information processing and odor learning. Olfactory inputs from the olfactory epithelium are processed in the tentacular ganglion and then in the procerebrum. Glutamate and acetylcholine are the major neurotransmitters used in the procerebrum. Phe-Met-Arg-Phe-NH2 (FMRFamide) has been shown to be involved in the regulation of the network activity of the procerebrum. Although there are thought to be various RFamide family peptides other than FMRFamide that are potentially recognized by anti-FMRFamide antibody in the central nervous system of mollusks, identifying the entire repertoire of RFamide peptides in Limax has yet to be achieved. METHODS In the present study, we made a comprehensive search for RFamide peptide-encoding genes from the transcriptome data of Limax, and identified 12 genes. The expression maps of these RFamide genes were constructed by in situ hybridization in the cerebral ganglia including the procerebrum, and in the superior/inferior tentacles. RESULTS Ten of 12 genes were expressed in the procerebrum, and nine of 12 genes were expressed in the tentacular ganglia. Gly-Ser-Leu-Phe-Arg-Phe-NH2 (GSLFRFamide), which is encoded by two different genes, LFRFamide1 (Leu-Phe-Arg-Phe-NH2-1) and LFRFamide2 (Leu-Phe-Arg-Phe-NH2-2), decreased the oscillatory frequency of the local field potential oscillation in the procerebrum when exogenously applied in vitro. We also found by immunohistochemistry that the neurons expressing pedal peptide send efferent projections from the procerebrum back to the tentacular ganglion. CONCLUSION Our findings suggest the involvement of a far wider variety of RFamide family peptides in the olfactory information processing in Limax than previously thought.
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- Yuko Matsuo
- Laboratory of Neurobiology, International College of Arts and Sciences, Fukuoka Women’s University, 1-1-1 Kasumigaoka, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 813-8529 Japan
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- Laboratory of Neurobiology, International College of Arts and Sciences, Fukuoka Women’s University, 1-1-1 Kasumigaoka, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 813-8529 Japan
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- Laboratory of Neurobiology, International College of Arts and Sciences, Fukuoka Women’s University, 1-1-1 Kasumigaoka, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 813-8529 Japan
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Click-iT method can be used to trace the neurons where the newly synthesized RNA transcripts occur. Our experiments performed with the CNS of terrestrial mollusk Helix demonstrate that 5-ethynyluridine (EU) is selectively incorporated in RNA but not in DNA. The time of EU accumulation necessary for its detection was about several hours. EU was injected into the body cavity of adult mollusks, and was detectable in neurons for several days. In juveniles, EU was introduced via bathing of snails in the EU-containing saline, and was reliably detected within time period of several weeks. Our data suggest that short-living forms of RNA cannot be detected by Click-iT method, while the long-living forms of RNA can be spatially detected in individual neurons.
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- Victor N Ierusalimsky
- a Lab of cellular neurobiology of learning, Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology RAS , Moscow , Russia
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- a Lab of cellular neurobiology of learning, Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology RAS , Moscow , Russia.,b Department of Higher Nervous Activity , Lomonosov Moscow State University , Moscow , Russia
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Kiss T. Do terrestrial gastropods use olfactory cues to locate and select food actively? INVERTEBRATE NEUROSCIENCE 2017; 17:9. [PMID: 28688004 DOI: 10.1007/s10158-017-0202-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2017] [Accepted: 06/29/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Having been investigated for over 40 years, some aspects of the biology of terrestrial gastropod's olfactory system have been challenging and highly contentious, while others still remain unresolved. For example, a number of terrestrial gastropod species can track the odor of food, while others have no strong preferences toward food odor; rather they find it by random encounter. Here, while assessing the most recent findings and comparing them with earlier studies, the aspects of the food selection based on olfactory cues are examined critically to highlight the speculations and controversies that have arisen. We analyzed and compared the potential role of airborne odors in the feeding behavior of several terrestrial gastropod species. The available results indicate that in the foraging of most of the terrestrial gastropod species odor cues contribute substantially to food finding and selection. The results also suggest, however, that what they will actually consume largely depends on where they live and the species of gastropod that they are. Due to the voluminous literature relevant to this object, this review is not intended to be exhaustive. Instead, I selected what I consider to be the most important or critical in studies regarding the role of the olfaction in feeding of terrestrial gastropods.
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- Tibor Kiss
- Department of Experimental Zoology, Balaton Limnological Institute, MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Klebelsberg Kuno Str. 2-3, Tihany, 8237, Hungary.
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Serfőző Z, Nacsa K, Veréb Z, Battonyai I, Hegedűs C, Balogh C, Elekes K. Nitric oxide-coupled signaling in odor elicited molecular events in the olfactory center of the terrestrial snail, Helix pomatia. Cell Signal 2016; 30:67-81. [PMID: 27884734 DOI: 10.1016/j.cellsig.2016.11.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2016] [Revised: 11/15/2016] [Accepted: 11/18/2016] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Olfaction, a chemosensory modality, plays a pivotal role in the orientation and behavior of invertebrates. The central olfactory processing unit in terrestrial stylomatophoran snails is the procerebrum, which contains NO synthesizing interneurons, whose oscillatory currents are believed to be the base of odor evoked memory formation. Nevertheless, in this model the up- and downstream events of molecular cascades that trigger and follow NO release, respectively, have not been studied. Immunocytochemistry and flow cytometry studies performed on procerebral neural perikarya isolated from the snail Helix pomatia revealed cell populations with discrete DAF-2 fluorescence, indicating the release of different amounts of NO. Glutamate increased the intensity of DAF-2 fluorescence, and the number of DAF-2 positive non-bursting interneurons, through a mechanism likely to involve an NMDA-like receptor. Similarly to glutamate, NO activation induced an increase in intracellular cGMP levels through activation of soluble guanylyl cyclase. Immunohistochemical localization of proteins possessing the phosphorylated target sequence of AGC family kinases (RXXS/T-P), among them protein kinase A (RRXS/T-P), showed striking similarities to the distribution of NOS/cGMP. Activators of cyclic nucleotide synthesis increased the AGC-kinase-dependent phosphorylation of discrete proteins with 28, 45, and 55kDamw. Importantly, exposure of snails to an attractive odorant induced hyperphosphorylation of the 28kDa protein, and increased levels of cGMP synthesis. Protein S-nitrosylation and intercellular activation of protein kinase G were also suggested as alternative components of NO signaling in the snail procerebrum. The present results from Helix pomatia indicate an important role for procerebrum NO/cGMP/PKA signaling pathways in the regulation of olfactory (food-finding) behavior.
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- Zoltán Serfőző
- MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Balaton Limnological Institute, Tihany, Hungary.
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- MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Balaton Limnological Institute, Tihany, Hungary
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- Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical and Health Science Center, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
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- MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Balaton Limnological Institute, Tihany, Hungary
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- Institute of Medical Chemistry, Medical and Health Science Center, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
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- MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Balaton Limnological Institute, Tihany, Hungary
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- MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Balaton Limnological Institute, Tihany, Hungary
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Matsuo R, Tanaka M, Fukata R, Kobayashi S, Aonuma H, Matsuo Y. Octopaminergic system in the central nervous system of the terrestrial slugLimax. J Comp Neurol 2016; 524:3849-3864. [DOI: 10.1002/cne.24039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2015] [Revised: 04/26/2016] [Accepted: 05/16/2016] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Ryota Matsuo
- International College of Arts and Sciences; Fukuoka Women's University; Higashi-ku Fukuoka 813-8529 Japan
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- International College of Arts and Sciences; Fukuoka Women's University; Higashi-ku Fukuoka 813-8529 Japan
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- International College of Arts and Sciences; Fukuoka Women's University; Higashi-ku Fukuoka 813-8529 Japan
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- Kagawa School of Pharmaceutical Sciences; Tokushima Bunri University; Sanuki Kagawa 769-2193 Japan
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- Research Center of Mathematics for Social Creativity, Research Institute of Electronic Science; Hokkaido University; Sapporo Hokkaido 060-0812 Japan
- Japan Science and Technology Agency; CREST; Kawaguchi Saitama 332-0012 Japan
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- International College of Arts and Sciences; Fukuoka Women's University; Higashi-ku Fukuoka 813-8529 Japan
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Koga Y, Matsuo Y, Matsuo R. Olfactory Memory Storage and/or Retrieval Requires the Presence of the Exact Tentacle Used During Memory Acquisition in the Terrestrial SlugLimax. Zoolog Sci 2016; 33:78-82. [DOI: 10.2108/zs150128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Matsuo R, Fukata R, Kumagai M, Kobayashi A, Kobayashi S, Matsuo Y. Distribution of histaminergic neurons and their modulatory effects on oscillatory activity in the olfactory center of the terrestrial slug Limax. J Comp Neurol 2015; 524:119-35. [DOI: 10.1002/cne.23829] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2015] [Revised: 06/04/2015] [Accepted: 06/08/2015] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Ryota Matsuo
- International College of Arts and Sciences; Fukuoka Women's University; Higashi-ku Fukuoka 813-8529 Japan
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- International College of Arts and Sciences; Fukuoka Women's University; Higashi-ku Fukuoka 813-8529 Japan
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- International College of Arts and Sciences; Fukuoka Women's University; Higashi-ku Fukuoka 813-8529 Japan
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- Kagawa School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima Bunri University; Sanuki Kagawa 769-2193 Japan
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- Kagawa School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima Bunri University; Sanuki Kagawa 769-2193 Japan
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- International College of Arts and Sciences; Fukuoka Women's University; Higashi-ku Fukuoka 813-8529 Japan
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Potassium channels in the central nervous system of the snail, Helix pomatia: Localization and functional characterization. Neuroscience 2014; 268:87-101. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2014.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2013] [Revised: 03/04/2014] [Accepted: 03/05/2014] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Matsuo R, Kobayashi S, Wakiya K, Yamagishi M, Fukuoka M, Ito E. The cholinergic system in the olfactory center of the terrestrial slugLimax. J Comp Neurol 2014; 522:2951-66. [DOI: 10.1002/cne.23559] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2013] [Revised: 01/10/2014] [Accepted: 02/04/2014] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Ryota Matsuo
- International College of Arts and Sciences; Fukuoka Women's University; Fukuoka 813-8529 Japan
- Kagawa School of Pharmaceutical Sciences; Tokushima Bunri University; Kagawa 769-2193 Japan
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- Kagawa School of Pharmaceutical Sciences; Tokushima Bunri University; Kagawa 769-2193 Japan
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- Kagawa School of Pharmaceutical Sciences; Tokushima Bunri University; Kagawa 769-2193 Japan
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- Kagawa School of Pharmaceutical Sciences; Tokushima Bunri University; Kagawa 769-2193 Japan
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- Kagawa School of Pharmaceutical Sciences; Tokushima Bunri University; Kagawa 769-2193 Japan
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- Kagawa School of Pharmaceutical Sciences; Tokushima Bunri University; Kagawa 769-2193 Japan
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Patel K, Shaheen N, Witherspoon J, Robinson N, Harrington MA. Mucus trail tracking in a predatory snail: olfactory processing retooled to serve a novel sensory modality. Brain Behav 2014; 4:83-94. [PMID: 24653958 PMCID: PMC3937710 DOI: 10.1002/brb3.198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2013] [Revised: 11/08/2013] [Accepted: 11/16/2013] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION The rosy wolfsnail (Euglandina rosea), a predatory land snail, finds prey snails and potential mates by following their mucus trails. Euglandina have evolved unique, mobile lip extensions that detect mucus and aid in following trails. Currently, little is known of the neural substrates of the trail-following behavior. METHODS To investigate the neural correlates of trail following we used tract-tracing experiments in which nerves were backfilled with either nickel-lysine or Lucifer yellow, extracellular recording of spiking neurons in snail procerebra using a multielectrode array, and behavioral assays of trail following and movement toward the source of a conditioned odor. RESULTS The tract-tracing experiments demonstrate that in Euglandina, the nerves carrying mucus signals innervate the same region of the central ganglia as the olfactory nerves, while the electrophysiology studies show that mucus stimulation of the sensory epithelium on the lip extensions alters the frequency and pattern of neural activity in the procerebrum in a manner similar to odor stimulation of the olfactory epithelium on the optic tentacles of another land snail species, Cantareus aspersa (previously known as Helix aspersa). While Euglandina learn to follow trails of novel chemicals that they contact with their lip extensions in one to three trials, these snails proved remarkably resistant to associative learning in the olfactory modality. Even after seven to nine pairings of odorant molecules with food, they showed no orientation toward the conditioned odor. This is in marked contrast to Cantareus snails, which reliably oriented toward conditioned odors after two to three trials. CONCLUSIONS The apparent inability of Euglandina to learn to associate food with odors and use odor cues to drive behavior suggests that the capability for sophisticated neural processing of nonvolatile mucus cues detected by the lip extensions has evolved at the expense of processing of odorant molecules detected by the olfactory system.
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- Kinjal Patel
- Department of Biology, Delaware State University 1200 North Dupont Highway, Dover, Delaware, 19901
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- Department of Biology, Delaware State University 1200 North Dupont Highway, Dover, Delaware, 19901
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- Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Service, University of Kansas Medical Center Kansas City, Kansas, 66160
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- Department of Biology, Delaware State University 1200 North Dupont Highway, Dover, Delaware, 19901
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- Department of Biology, Delaware State University 1200 North Dupont Highway, Dover, Delaware, 19901
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Voltage-gated membrane currents in neurons involved in odor information processing in snail procerebrum. Brain Struct Funct 2013; 219:673-82. [DOI: 10.1007/s00429-013-0526-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2012] [Accepted: 02/08/2013] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Kobayashi S, Matsuo R, Sadamoto H, Watanabe S, Ito E. Excitatory effects of GABA on procerebrum neurons in a slug. J Neurophysiol 2012; 108:989-98. [DOI: 10.1152/jn.01137.2010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Classical neurotransmitters, such as glutamate and γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA), often have different actions on invertebrate neurons from those reported for vertebrate neurons. In the terrestrial mollusk Limax, glutamate was found to function as an inhibitory transmitter in the procerebrum (PC), but it has not yet been clarified how GABA acts in the PC. We thus examined what effects GABA exerts on PC neurons in the present study. For this purpose, we first applied GABA to isolated PC preparations and recorded postsynaptic currents and potentials in PC neurons. The GABA application reduced the amplitude of inhibitory postsynaptic currents and depolarization-induced outward currents recorded in nonbursting neurons and increased the number of spontaneous spikes of nonbursting neurons. However, direct GABA-induced currents were not observed in either bursting or nonbursting neurons. These results suggest a potential direct effect of GABA on outward currents resulting in enhanced excitability of PC neurons. Next, we measured the change in [Ca2+]i in cultured PC neurons by application of GABA. The GABA application increased spontaneous Ca2+ events in cultured neurons. These Ca2+ events were ascribable to the influx of extracellular Ca2+. We then confirmed the presence of GABA and GABA receptors in the PC. The GABA-like immunoreactivity was observed in the neuropil layers of the PC, and the mRNAs for both GABAA and GABAB receptors were expressed in the PC. In particular, GABAB receptor mRNA, rather than GABAA, was found to be more abundantly expressed in the PC. These results suggest that GABA functions as an excitatory modulator for PC neurons via mainly GABAB receptors.
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- Suguru Kobayashi
- Kagawa School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima Bunri University, Kagawa, Japan; and
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- Kagawa School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima Bunri University, Kagawa, Japan; and
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- Kagawa School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima Bunri University, Kagawa, Japan; and
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- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Kagawa School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima Bunri University, Kagawa, Japan; and
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Urban A, Ermentrout B. Formation of antiwaves in gap-junction-coupled chains of neurons. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2012; 86:011907. [PMID: 23005452 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.86.011907] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2012] [Revised: 05/17/2012] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Using network models consisting of gap-junction-coupled Wang-Buszaki neurons, we demonstrate that it is possible to obtain not only synchronous activity between neurons but also a variety of constant phase shifts between 0 and π. We call these phase shifts intermediate stable phase-locked states. These phase shifts can produce a large variety of wavelike activity patterns in one-dimensional chains and two-dimensional arrays of neurons, which can be studied by reducing the system of equations to a phase model. The 2π periodic coupling functions of these models are characterized by prominent higher order terms in their Fourier expansion, which can be varied by changing model parameters. We study how the relative contribution of the odd and even terms affects what solutions are possible, the basin of attraction of those solutions, and their stability. These models may be applicable to the spinal central pattern generators of the dogfish and also to the developing neocortex of the neonatal rat.
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- Alexander Urban
- Department of Physics, University of Pittsburgh,100 Allen Hall, 3941 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
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Organization of the procerebrum in terrestrial pulmonates (Helix, Limax) reconsidered: cell mass layer synaptology and its serotonergic input system. Brain Struct Funct 2012; 218:477-90. [DOI: 10.1007/s00429-012-0409-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2012] [Accepted: 03/16/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Battonyai I, Elekes K. The 5-HT immunoreactive innervation of the Helix procerebrum. ACTA BIOLOGICA HUNGARICA 2012; 63 Suppl 2:96-103. [PMID: 22776481 DOI: 10.1556/abiol.63.2012.suppl.2.13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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In the procerebrum of terrestrial snails, 5-HT is a key modulatory substance of the generation of synchronous oscillatory activity and odor learning capability. In this study, we have analyzed the characteristics of the 5-HT-immunoreactive (5-HT-IR) innervation of the distinct anatomical regions of the procerebrum of Helix pomatia, applying correlative light- and electron microscopic immunocytochemistry. A dense network of 5-HT-IR innervation was demonstrated in the cell body layer, meanwhile a varicose fiber system of different density occurred in the different neuropil regions. At the ultrastructural level, labeled varicosities were found to contact both procerebral cell bodies, and different unlabeled axon profiles in the neuropils. The labeled structures established mostly close non-specialized membrane contacts with the postsynaptic profiles. The overall dense distribution of 5-HT-IR innervation supports a general modulatory role of 5-HT in processing different olfactory events.
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- Izabella Battonyai
- MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Balaton Limnological Institute, Department of Experimental Zoology, P.O. Box 35, H-8237 Tihany, Hungary
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Longley RD. Neurogenesis in the procerebrum of the snail Helix aspersa: a quantitative analysis. THE BIOLOGICAL BULLETIN 2011; 221:215-226. [PMID: 22042440 DOI: 10.1086/bblv221n2p215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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The procerebrum, a specialized structure for olfaction in terrestrial pulmonate molluscs, contains 20,000 to 50,000 small, uniformly sized neurons that increase in number with age. Here I show the likely source of neurons added to the procerebrum of Helix aspersa and that the rate of neuron addition depends on snail weight. After hatching, during the initial exponential growth phase, H. aspersa adds neurons to the procerebral apex by mitosis and from a cerebral tube. In the logistic growth phase beginning 30-40 days post-hatch, neurons also seem to be added to the procerebrum from the peritentacular and olfactory nerves, causing the rate of neuron addition to approximately double; but as in the earlier exponential growth phase, this rate remains a function of snail weight. This neuron addition throughout the life of the snail can be predicted by snail weight. In the two growth phases, the number of neurons in the procerebrum is given by logarithmic functions of snail weight. The results here for H. aspersa provide the basis for experiments to determine the peripheral origin and destination of neuronal precursors that are added to the procerebrum and to determine how neuron addition affects the function of the procerebrum.
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- Roger D Longley
- Friday Harbor Laboratories, 620 University Road, Friday Harbor, Washington 98250, USA.
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Matsuo R, Kobayashi S, Yamagishi M, Ito E. Two pairs of tentacles and a pair of procerebra: optimized functions and redundant structures in the sensory and central organs involved in olfactory learning of terrestrial pulmonates. J Exp Biol 2011; 214:879-86. [DOI: 10.1242/jeb.024562] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Terrestrial pulmonates can learn olfactory-aversion tasks and retain them in their long-term memory. To elucidate the cellular mechanisms underlying learning and memory, researchers have focused on both the peripheral and central components of olfaction: two pairs of tentacles (the superior and inferior tentacles) and a pair of procerebra, respectively. Data from tentacle-amputation experiments showed that either pair of tentacles is sufficient for olfactory learning. Results of procerebrum lesion experiments showed that the procerebra are necessary for olfactory learning but that either one of the two procerebra, rather than both, is used for each olfactory learning event. Together, these data suggest that there is a redundancy in the structures of terrestrial pulmonates necessary for olfactory learning. In our commentary we exemplify and discuss functional optimization and structural redundancy in the sensory and central organs involved in olfactory learning and memory in terrestrial pulmonates.
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- Ryota Matsuo
- Kagawa School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima Bunri University, Shido, Sanuki 769-2193, Japan
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- Kagawa School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima Bunri University, Shido, Sanuki 769-2193, Japan
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- Kagawa School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima Bunri University, Shido, Sanuki 769-2193, Japan
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- Kagawa School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima Bunri University, Shido, Sanuki 769-2193, Japan
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Jändel M. Natural evolution of neural support vector machines. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2011; 718:193-207. [PMID: 21744220 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-0164-3_16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Two different neural implementations of support vector machines are described and applied to one-shot trainable pattern recognition. The first model is based on oscillating associative memory and is mapped to the olfactory system. The second model is founded on competitive queuing memory originally employed for generating motor action sequences in the brain. Both models include forward pathways where a stream of support vectors is evoked from memory and merges with sensory input to produce support vector machine classifications. Misclassified events are imprinted as new support vector candidates. Support vector machine weights are tuned by virtual experimentation in sleep. Recalled training examples masquerade as sensor input and feedback from the classification process drives a learning process where support vector weights are optimized. For both support vector machine models it is demonstrated that there is a plausible evolutionary path from a simple hard-wired pattern recognizer to a full implementation of a biological kernel machine. Simple and individually beneficial modifications are accumulated in each step along this path. Neural support vector machines can apparently emerge by natural processes.
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- Magnus Jändel
- Swedish Defence Research Agency, 164 90 Stockholm, Sweden.
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Sekiguchi T, Furudate H, Kimura T. Internal representation and memory formation of odor preference based on oscillatory activities in a terrestrial slug. Learn Mem 2010; 17:372-80. [DOI: 10.1101/lm.1867110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Sunada H, Horikoshi T, Lukowiak K, Sakakibara M. Increase in excitability of RPeD11 results in memory enhancement of juvenile and adult Lymnaea stagnalis by predator-induced stress. Neurobiol Learn Mem 2010; 94:269-77. [PMID: 20601028 DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2010.06.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2010] [Revised: 06/05/2010] [Accepted: 06/17/2010] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Memory consolidation following learning is a dynamic process. Thus, long-term memory (LTM) formation can be modulated by many factors, including stress. We examined how predator-induced stress enhances LTM formation in the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis at both the behavioral and electrophysiological levels. Training snails in crayfish effluent (CE; i.e., water from an aquarium containing crayfish) significantly enhanced LTM. That is, while memory persists for only 3h in adult control experiments following a single 0.5-h training session in pond water in which the pneumostome receives a contingent tactile stimulus to the pneumostome; when the snails are trained in CE, the memory persists for at least 24h. In juveniles, the data are more dramatic. Juveniles are unable to form LTM in pond water, but form LTM when trained in CE. Here we examined whether juvenile snails form LTM following a one-trial training procedure (1TT). Following the 1TT procedure (a single-trial aversive operant conditioning training procedure), juveniles do not form LTM, unless trained in CE. Concomitantly, we observe changes in the excitability of RPeD11, a key neuron mediating the whole snail withdrawal response, which may be a neural correlate of enhanced memory formation.
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- Hiroshi Sunada
- Graduate School of Bioscience, Tokai University, Numazu 410-0321, Japan
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Huerta R, Nowotny T. Fast and Robust Learning by Reinforcement Signals: Explorations in the Insect Brain. Neural Comput 2009; 21:2123-51. [PMID: 19538091 DOI: 10.1162/neco.2009.03-08-733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [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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We propose a model for pattern recognition in the insect brain. Departing from a well-known body of knowledge about the insect brain, we investigate which of the potentially present features may be useful to learn input patterns rapidly and in a stable manner. The plasticity underlying pattern recognition is situated in the insect mushroom bodies and requires an error signal to associate the stimulus with a proper response. As a proof of concept, we used our model insect brain to classify the well-known MNIST database of handwritten digits, a popular benchmark for classifiers. We show that the structural organization of the insect brain appears to be suitable for both fast learning of new stimuli and reasonable performance in stationary conditions. Furthermore, it is extremely robust to damage to the brain structures involved in sensory processing. Finally, we suggest that spatiotemporal dynamics can improve the level of confidence in a classification decision. The proposed approach allows testing the effect of hypothesized mechanisms rather than speculating on their benefit for system performance or confidence in its responses.
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- Ramón Huerta
- Institute for Nonlinear Science, University of California San Diego, La Jolla CA 92093-0402, U.S.A
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- Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics, Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QJ, U.K
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Nagahama T, Fujimoto K, Takami S, Kinugawa A, Narusuye K. Effective amino acid composition of seaweeds inducing food preference behaviors in Aplysia kurodai. Neurosci Res 2009; 64:243-50. [PMID: 19447292 DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2009.03.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2009] [Revised: 03/02/2009] [Accepted: 03/09/2009] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Aplysia kurodai feeds on Ulva but rejects Gelidium and Pachydictyon with distinct patterned jaw movements. We previously demonstrated that these movements are induced by taste alone. Thus some chemicals may contribute to induction of these responses. We explored the amino acids composition of Ulva, Gelidium and Pachydictyon extracts used during our taste-induced physiological experiments. These solutions contained many constituents. The concentrations of six amino acids (Asp, Asn, Glu, Gln, Phe, Tau) were obviously different in the three extract solutions. We explored patterned jaw movements following application of solutions containing a pure amino acid. We statistically compared the occurrence numbers of ingestion-like and rejection-like patterned jaw movements (positive and negative values, respectively) for each amino acid. Our results suggested that L-Asn tends to induce ingestion-like responses, likely resulting in a preference of Ulva. In contrast, L-Asp tends to induce rejection-like responses, likely resulting in aversion towards Pachydictyon. In addition, we demonstrated that L-Asn and L-Asp solutions were sufficient to induce muscle activity associated with ingestion-like or rejection-like responses in the jaw muscles of a semi-intact preparation.
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- Tatsumi Nagahama
- Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science and Open Research Center, Toho University, Funabashi, Japan.
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Watanabe S, Kirino Y, Gelperin A. Neural and molecular mechanisms of microcognition in Limax. Learn Mem 2008; 15:633-42. [DOI: 10.1101/lm920908] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Martens K, Amarell M, Parvez K, Hittel K, De Caigny P, Ito E, Lukowiak K. One-trial conditioning of aerial respiratory behaviour in Lymnaea stagnalis. Neurobiol Learn Mem 2007; 88:232-42. [PMID: 17540582 DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2007.04.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2007] [Revised: 04/20/2007] [Accepted: 04/22/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Repeated spaced training sessions of contingent tactile stimulation to the pneumostome as it opens are required to cause long-term memory (LTM) formation of aerial respiratory behaviour making if difficult to determine exactly when memory forms. We have devised a single-trial aversive operant conditioning training procedure in Lymnaea to be better able to elucidate the causal mechanisms of LTM formation. Observations of baseline breathing behaviour in hypoxia were first made. Twenty-four hours later the snails were trained using the single trial procedure, by placing them in a small Petri dish containing 4 ml of 25 mM KCl for 30-35s as soon as the first pneumostome opening in hypoxia was attempted. LTM was present if (1) breathing behaviour following training was significantly less than before; and (2) breathing behaviour post-training was significantly less in experimental groups than in yoked control groups. LTM persisted for 24 h but not 48 h. Yoked controls that received an aversive stimulus not contingent with pneumostome opening had no evidence of memory. Cooling directly after, but not at any other time, blocks LTM formation. LTM formation was also prevented by removal of the cell body of the neuron RPeD1 before training.
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- Kara Martens
- Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Dr NW, Calgary AB, Canada T2N 4N1
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Systematic mapping studies involving 365 odorant chemicals have shown that glomerular responses in the rat olfactory bulb are organized spatially in patterns that are related to the chemistry of the odorant stimuli. This organization involves the spatial clustering of principal responses to numerous odorants that share key aspects of chemistry such as functional groups, hydrocarbon structural elements, and/or overall molecular properties related to water solubility. In several of the clusters, responses shift progressively in position according to odorant carbon chain length. These response domains appear to be constructed from orderly projections of sensory neurons in the olfactory epithelium and may also involve chromatography across the nasal mucosa. The spatial clustering of glomerular responses may serve to "tune" the principal responses of bulbar projection neurons by way of inhibitory interneuronal networks, allowing the projection neurons to respond to a narrower range of stimuli than their associated sensory neurons. When glomerular activity patterns are viewed relative to the overall level of glomerular activation, the patterns accurately predict the perception of odor quality, thereby supporting the notion that spatial patterns of activity are the key factors underlying that aspect of the olfactory code. A critical analysis suggests that alternative coding mechanisms for odor quality, such as those based on temporal patterns of responses, enjoy little experimental support.
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- Brett A Johnson
- Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-4550, USA.
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Ierusalimsky VN, Balaban PM. Primary sensory neurons containing command neuron peptide constitute a morphologically distinct class of sensory neurons in the terrestrial snail. Cell Tissue Res 2007; 330:169-77. [PMID: 17605049 DOI: 10.1007/s00441-007-0447-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2006] [Accepted: 05/25/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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In the central nervous system of the terrestrial snail Helix, the gene HCS2, which encodes several neuropeptides of the CNP (command neuron peptide) family, is mostly expressed in cells related to withdrawal behavior. In the present work, we demonstrate that a small percentage (0.1%) of the sensory cells, located in the sensory pad and in the surrounding epithelial region ("collar") of the anterior and posterior tentacles, is immunoreactive to antisera raised against the neuropeptides CNP2 and CNP4, encoded by the HCS2 gene. No CNP-like-immunoreactive neurons have been detected among the tentacular ganglionic interneurons. The CNP-like-immunoreactive fiber bundles enter the cerebral ganglia within the nerves of the tentacles (tentacular nerve and medial lip nerve) and innervate the metacerebral lobe, viz., the integrative brain region well-known as the target area for many cerebral ganglia nerves. The procerebral lobe, which is involved in the processing of olfactory information, is not CNP-immunoreactive. Our data suggest that the sensory cells, which contain the CNP neuropeptides, belong to a class of sensory neurons with a specific function, presumably involved in the withdrawal behavior of the snail.
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- Victor N Ierusalimsky
- Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
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Root CM, Semmelhack JL, Wong AM, Flores J, Wang JW. Propagation of olfactory information in Drosophila. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007; 104:11826-31. [PMID: 17596338 PMCID: PMC1913902 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0704523104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Investigating how information propagates between layers in the olfactory system is an important step toward understanding the olfactory code. Each glomerular output projection neuron (PN) receives two sources of input: the olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs) of the same glomerulus and interneurons that innervate many glomeruli. We therefore asked how these inputs interact to produce PN output. We used receptor gene mutations to silence all of the ORNs innervating a specific glomerulus and recorded PN activity with two-photon calcium imaging and electrophysiology. We found evidence for balanced excitatory and inhibitory synaptic inputs but saw little or no response in the absence of direct ORN input. We next asked whether any transformation of activity occurs at successive layers of the antennal lobe. We found a strong link between PN firing and dendritic calcium elevation, the latter of which is tightly correlated with calcium activity in ORN axons, supporting the idea of glomerular propagation of olfactory information. Finally, we showed that odors are represented by a sparse population of PNs. Together, these results are consistent with the idea that direct receptor input provides the main excitatory drive to PNs, whereas interneurons modulate PN output. Balanced excitatory and inhibitory interneuron input may provide a mechanism to adjust PN sensitivity.
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- Cory M. Root
- *Division of Biological Sciences, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, Bonner Hall 2206, La Jolla, CA 92093-0368; and
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- *Division of Biological Sciences, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, Bonner Hall 2206, La Jolla, CA 92093-0368; and
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, 701 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, 701 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032
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- *Division of Biological Sciences, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, Bonner Hall 2206, La Jolla, CA 92093-0368; and
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, 701 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032
- To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
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Ott SR, Aonuma H, Newland PL, Elphick MR. Nitric oxide synthase in crayfish walking leg ganglia: Segmental differences in chemo-tactile centers argue against a generic role in sensory integration. J Comp Neurol 2007; 501:381-99. [PMID: 17245703 DOI: 10.1002/cne.21242] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Nitric oxide (NO) is a diffusible signaling molecule with evolutionarily conserved roles in neural plasticity. Prominent expression of NO synthase (NOS) in the primary olfactory centers of mammals and insects lead to the notion of a special role for NO in olfaction. In insects, however, NOS is also strongly expressed in non-olfactory chemo-tactile centers of the thoracic nerve cord. The functional significance of this apparent association with various sensory centers is unclear, as is the extent to which it occurs in other arthropods. We therefore investigated the expression of NOS in the pereopod ganglia of crayfish (Pacifastacus lenisculus and Procambarus clarkii). Conventional NADPH diaphorase (NADPHd) staining after formaldehyde fixation gave poor anatomic detail, whereas fixation in methanol/formalin (MF-NADPHd) resulted in Golgi-like staining, which was supported by immunohistochemistry using NOS antibodies that recognize a 135-kDa protein in crayfish. MF-NADPHd revealed an exceedingly dense innervation of the chemo-tactile centers. As in insects, this innervation was provided by a system of prominent intersegmental neurons. Superimposed on a putatively conserved architecture, however, were pronounced segmental differences. Strong expression occurred only in the anterior three pereopod ganglia, correlating with the presence of claws on pereopods one to three. These clawed pereopods, in addition to their role in locomotion, are crucially involved in feeding, where they serve both sensory and motor functions. Our findings indicate that strong expression of NOS is not a universal feature of primary sensory centers but instead may subserve a specific requirement for sensory plasticity that arises only in particular behavioral contexts.
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- Swidbert R Ott
- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, United Kingdom.
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Dzakpasu R, Patel K, Robinson N, Harrington MA, Zochowski M. Measuring asymmetric temporal interdependencies in simulated and biological networks. CHAOS (WOODBURY, N.Y.) 2006; 16:043121. [PMID: 17199399 DOI: 10.1063/1.2401130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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We use a newly developed metric to characterize asymmetric temporal interdependencies in networks of coupled dynamical elements. We studied the formation of temporal ordering in a system of coupled Rossler oscillators for different connectivity ratios and network topologies and also applied the metric to investigate the functional structure of a biological network (cerebral ganglia of Helix snail). In the former example we show how the local ordering evolves to the global one as a function of structural parameters of the network, while in the latter we show spontaneous emergence of functional interdependence between two groups of electrodes.
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- Rhonda Dzakpasu
- Department of Physics University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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Goel P, Gelperin A. A neuronal network for the logic of Limax learning. J Comput Neurosci 2006; 21:259-70. [PMID: 16927210 DOI: 10.1007/s10827-006-8097-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2005] [Revised: 02/27/2006] [Accepted: 03/01/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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We construct a neuronal network to model the logic of associative conditioning as revealed in experimental results using the terrestrial mollusk Limax maximus. We show, in particular, how blocking to a previously conditioned stimulus in the presence of the unconditional stimulus, can emerge as a dynamical property of the network. We also propose experiments to test the new model.
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Kasai Y, Watanabe S, Kirino Y, Matsuo R. The procerebrum is necessary for odor-aversion learning in the terrestrial slug Limax valentianus. Learn Mem 2006; 13:482-8. [PMID: 16847307 PMCID: PMC1538926 DOI: 10.1101/lm.257606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The terrestrial slug Limax has a highly developed ability to associate the odor of some foods (e.g., carrot juice) with aversive stimuli such as the bitter taste of quinidine solution. The procerebrum (PC) is a part of the slug's brain thought to be involved in odor-aversion learning, but direct evidence is still lacking. Here we present evidence showing that the PC is essential for odor-aversion learning. Unlike sham-operated slugs, PC ablation 7 d prior to conditioning showed that most slugs did not avoid carrot juice in the memory retention test conducted 24 h after the conditioning. Slugs with the PC ablated 3 h, 1 d, 3 d, or 7 d after conditioning and examined by the memory retention test at 3 d after the PC ablation were also less likely to avoid carrot juice than sham-operated slugs. The PC ablation did not damage the ability of the slugs to sense attractive odor (everyday food) or innately aversive odor (onion or garlic). These results demonstrate that the PC is a necessary component in the retention and/or retrieval of odor-aversion memory.
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- Yoko Kasai
- Laboratory of Neurobiophysics, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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More than 50 years have passed since the first recording of neuronal responses to an odor stimulus from the primary olfactory brain area, the main olfactory bulb. During this time very little progress has been achieved in understanding neuronal dynamics in the olfactory bulb in awake behaving animals, which is very different from that in anesthetized preparations. In this paper we formulate a new framework containing the main reasons for studying olfactory neuronal dynamics in awake animals and review advances in the field within this new framework.
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- Dmitry Rinberg
- Monell Chemical Senses Center, 3500 Market St., Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
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Wertz A, Rössler W, Obermayer M, Bickmeyer U. Functional neuroanatomy of the rhinophore of Aplysia punctata. Front Zool 2006; 3:6. [PMID: 16597345 PMCID: PMC1526719 DOI: 10.1186/1742-9994-3-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2006] [Accepted: 04/06/2006] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Background For marine snails, olfaction represents a crucial sensory modality for long-distance reception, as auditory and visual information is limited. The posterior tentacle of Aplysia, the rhinophore, is a chemosensory organ and several behavioural studies showed that the rhinophores can detect pheromones, initiate orientation and locomotion toward food. However the functional neuroanatomy of the rhinophore is not yet clear. Here we apply serotonin-immunohistochemistry and fluorescent markers in combination with confocal microscopy as well as optical recording techniques to elucidate the structure and function of the rhinophore of the sea slug Aplysia punctata. Results With anatomical techniques an overview of the neuroanatomical organization of the rhinophore is presented. Labelling with propidium iodide revealed one layer of cell nuclei in the sensory epithelium and densely packed cell nuclei beneath the groove of the rhinophore, which extends to about two third of the total length of the rhinophore. Serotonin immunoreactivity was found within the olfactory glomeruli underneath the epithelium as well as in the rhinophore ganglion. Retrograde tracing from the rhinophore ganglion with 4-(4-(dihexadecylamino)styryl)-N-methylpyridinium iodide (DiA) demonstrated the connection of glomeruli with the ganglion. Around 36 glomeruli (mean diameter 49 μm) were counted in a single rhinophore. Fluorimetric measurements of intracellular Ca2+ levels using Fura-2 AM loading revealed Ca2+-responses within the rhinophore ganglion to stimulation with amino acids. Bath application of different amino acids revealed differential responses at different positions within the rhinophore ganglion. Conclusion Our neuroanatomical study revealed the number and position of glomeruli in the rhinophore and the rhinophore ganglion as processing stage of sensory information. Serotonin-immunoreactive processes were found extensively within the rhinophore, but was not detected within any peripheral cell body. Amino acids were used as olfactory stimuli in optical recordings and induced sensory responses in the rhinophore ganglion. The complexity of changes in intracellular Ca2+-levels indicates, that processing of odour information takes place within the rhinophore ganglion. Our neuroanatomical and functional studies of the rhinophore open up a new avenue to analyze the olfactory system in Aplysia.
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- Adrian Wertz
- Biologische Anstalt Helgoland, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Helmholtz Society, Kurpromenade 201, 27483 Helgoland, Germany
- Behavioural Physiology and Sociobiology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
- Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Department of Systems and Computational Neurobiology, Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152 Martinsried, Germany
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- Behavioural Physiology and Sociobiology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Behavioural Physiology and Sociobiology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Biologische Anstalt Helgoland, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Helmholtz Society, Kurpromenade 201, 27483 Helgoland, Germany
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Nowotny T, Huerta R, Abarbanel HDI, Rabinovich MI. Self-organization in the olfactory system: one shot odor recognition in insects. BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS 2005; 93:436-46. [PMID: 16320081 DOI: 10.1007/s00422-005-0019-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2005] [Accepted: 09/09/2005] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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We show in a model of spiking neurons that synaptic plasticity in the mushroom bodies in combination with the general fan-in, fan-out properties of the early processing layers of the olfactory system might be sufficient to account for its efficient recognition of odors. For a large variety of initial conditions the model system consistently finds a working solution without any fine-tuning, and is, therefore, inherently robust. We demonstrate that gain control through the known feedforward inhibition of lateral horn interneurons increases the capacity of the system but is not essential for its general function. We also predict an upper limit for the number of odor classes Drosophila can discriminate based on the number and connectivity of its olfactory neurons.
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- Thomas Nowotny
- Institute for Nonlinear Science, UCSD, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093-0402, USA.
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Olfaction is a vitally important sense for all animals. There are striking similarities between species in the organization of the olfactory pathway, from the nature of the odorant receptor proteins, to perireceptor processes, to the organization of the olfactory CNS, through odor-guided behavior and memory. These common features span a phylogenetically broad array of animals, implying that there is an optimal solution to the problem of detecting and discriminating odors.
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- Barry W Ache
- Whitney Lab for Marine Bioscience, Department of Zoology, Center for Smell and Taste and McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610, USA.
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Andras P. Pattern computation in neural communication systems. BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS 2005; 92:452-60. [PMID: 15900482 DOI: 10.1007/s00422-005-0572-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2004] [Accepted: 03/18/2005] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Biological data suggests that activity patterns emerging in small- and large-scale neural systems may play an important role in performing the functions of the neural system, and in particular, neural computations. It is proposed in this paper that neural systems can be understood in terms of pattern computation and abstract communication systems theory. It is shown that analysing high-resolution surface EEG data, it is possible to determine abstract probabilistic rules that describe how emerging activity patterns follow earlier activity patterns. The results indicate the applicability of the proposed approach for understanding the working of complex neural systems.
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- Peter Andras
- School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK.
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Gabriel A, Eckhorn R. A multi-channel correlation method detects traveling gamma-waves in monkey visual cortex. J Neurosci Methods 2004; 131:171-84. [PMID: 14659837 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2003.08.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Correlations among simultaneously recorded signals are mostly analyzed pairwise and include temporal averaging. However, pairwise methods are not suitable for characterizing relationships among multiple channels for signals which vary temporally in an unpredictable way. Here we develop a time-resolved spatio-temporal correlation (STC) measure among simultaneously recorded signals. We demonstrate the capabilities of the method with artificial data sets and with multiple-channel recordings from striate cortex of awake monkeys. We concentrate on correlations in the gamma-frequency range (gamma: 30-90 Hz) because they were prominent in the analyzed recordings and gained high interest in the recent years due to their assumed role in associative processing, including perceptual binding. Former analyses of gamma-activities in visual cortex, using pairwise correlation methods, mostly revealed zero-delay correlation, indicating synchrony. In cat and monkey visual cortex this gamma-synchrony is restricted to 1.5-3.0 mm (half-height decline). However, our spatio-temporal correlation (STC)-method demonstrates for striate cortex from awake monkeys that gamma-synchrony is a local phenomenon of more global traveling plane waves that appear stimulus-induced at randomly varying orientations. These gamma-waves are coupled over much larger cortical distances (approximately 7 mm half-height decline) than the gamma-synchrony ranges obtained by pairwise correlation analyses from the same data. Our STC-method therefore suggests that the previously reported results of short-range and zero-delay correlations were often due to temporal averaging of traveling gamma-waves.
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- Andreas Gabriel
- Department of Applied Physics, NeuroPhysics Group, Philipps-University, Renthof 7, Marburg D-35032, Germany.
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Murakami M, Watanabe S, Inoue T, Kirino Y. Odor-evoked responses in the olfactory center neurons in the terrestrial slug. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 58:369-78. [PMID: 14750149 DOI: 10.1002/neu.10295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The procerebrum (PC) of the terrestrial mollusk Limax is a highly developed second-order olfactory center consisting of two electrophysiologically distinct populations of neurons: nonbursting (NB) and bursting (B). NB neurons are by far the more numerous of the two cell types. They receive direct synaptic inputs from afferent fibers from the tentacle ganglion, the primary olfactory center, and also receive periodic inhibitory postsynaptic potentials (IPSPs) from B neurons. Odor-evoked activity in the NB neurons was examined using perforated patch recordings. Stimulation of the superior tentacle with odorants resulted in inhibitory responses in 45% of NB neurons, while 11% of NB neurons showed an excitatory response. The specific response was reproducible in each neuron to the same odorant, suggesting the possibility that activity of NB neurons may encode odor identity. Analysis of the cycle-averaged membrane potential of NB neurons revealed a correlation between the firing rate and the membrane potential at the plateau phase between IPSPs. Also, the firing rate of NB neurons was affected by the frequency of the IPSPs. These results indicate the existence of two distinct mechanisms for the regulation of NB neuron activity.
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- Masayoshi Murakami
- Laboratory of Neurobiophysics, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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Fujie S, Yamamoto T, Murakami J, Hatakeyama D, Shiga H, Suzuki N, Ito E. Nitric oxide synthase and soluble guanylyl cyclase underlying the modulation of electrical oscillations in a central olfactory organ. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 62:14-30. [PMID: 15316917 DOI: 10.1002/neu.20046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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We have isolated and characterized the cDNAs for nitric oxide synthase (NOS) and soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC) from the terrestrial slug Limax marginatus, and examined the presence and distribution of their mRNAs in the central nervous system using histological techniques and a reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction method. Our results showed that both bursting and nonbursting neurons in the procerebral lobes contain the mRNAs for both NOS and sGC. We further found that the oscillation frequency of electrical activity in the procerebral lobes increases with increasing intracellular concentrations of cyclic GMP (cGMP). Taken together with previous data on the NO-induced cGMP-like immunoreactivity and on the anatomical distribution of neurites and the localization of synapses of bursting and nonbursting neurons, our present results suggest that NO-induced changes in cGMP concentration modulate the oscillation frequency in the procerebral lobes by acting on the olfactory input pathways, but possibly not on the output pathways, in slugs. .
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- Sayoko Fujie
- Division of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, North 10, West 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
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Christensen TA, Lei H, Hildebrand JG. Coordination of central odor representations through transient, non-oscillatory synchronization of glomerular output neurons. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2003; 100:11076-81. [PMID: 12960372 PMCID: PMC196929 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1934001100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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At the first stage of processing in the olfactory pathway, the patterns of glomerular activity evoked by different scents are both temporally and spatially dynamic. In the antennal lobe (AL) of some insects, coherent firing of AL projection neurons (PNs) can be phase-locked to network oscillations, and it has been proposed that oscillatory synchronization of PN activity may encode the chemical identity of the olfactory stimulus. It remains unclear, however, how the brain uses this time-constrained mechanism to encode chemical identity when the stimulus itself is unpredictably dynamic. In the olfactory pathway of the moth Manduca sexta,we find that different odorants evoke gamma-band oscillations in the AL and the mushroom body (a higher-order network that receives input from the AL), but oscillations within or between these two processing stages are not temporally coherent. Moreover, the timing of action potential firing in PNs is not phase-locked to oscillations in either the AL or mushroom body, and the correlation between PN synchrony and field oscillations remains low before, during, and after olfactory stimulation. These results demonstrate that olfactory circuits in the moth are specialized to preserve time-varying signals in the insect's olfactory space, and that stimulus dynamics rather than intrinsic oscillations modulate the uniquely coordinated pattern of PN synchronization evoked by each olfactory stimulus. We propose that non-oscillatory synchronization provides an adaptive mechanism by which PN ensembles can encode stimulus identity while concurrently monitoring the unpredictable dynamics in the olfactory signal that typically occur under natural stimulus conditions.
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- Thomas A Christensen
- Arizona Research Laboratories, Division of Neurobiology, University of Arizona, P.O. Box 210077, Tucson, AZ 85721-0077, USA.
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Yoshida R, Nagahama T. Search for cerebral G cluster neurons responding to taste stimulation with seaweed in Aplysia kurodai by the use of calcium imaging. JOURNAL OF NEUROBIOLOGY 2003; 55:299-314. [PMID: 12717700 DOI: 10.1002/neu.10207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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The calcium imaging method can detect the spike activities of many neurons simultaneously. In the present experiments, this method was used to search for unique neurons contributing to feeding behavior in the cerebral ganglia of Aplysia kurodai. We mainly explored the neurons whose cell bodies were located in the G cluster and the neuropile region posterior to this cluster on the ventral surface of the cerebral ganglia. When the extract of the food seaweed Ulva was applied to the tentacle-lip region, many neurons stained with a calcium-sensitive dye, Calcium Green-1, showed changes in fluorescence. Some neurons showed rhythmic responses and others showed transient responses, suggesting that these neurons may be partly involved in the feeding circuits. We also identified three motor neurons among these neurons that showed rhythmic fluorescence responses to the taste stimulation. One of them was a motor neuron shortening the anterior tentacle (ATS), and the other two were motor neurons producing lip opening-like (LO(G)) and closing-like (LC(G)) movements, respectively. Application of the Ulva extract to the tentacle-lip region induced phase-locked rhythmic firing activity in these motor neurons, suggesting that these neurons may contribute to the rhythmic patterned movements of the anterior tentacles and lips during the ingestion of seaweed.
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- Ryusuke Yoshida
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kobe University, Rokkodai, Nada-ku, Kobe 657-8501, Japan
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Laberge F, Hara TJ. Non-oscillatory discharges of an F-prostaglandin responsive neuron population in the olfactory bulb-telencephalon transition area in lake whitefish. Neuroscience 2003; 116:1089-95. [PMID: 12617950 DOI: 10.1016/s0306-4522(02)00717-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Our previous studies on olfactory bulbar responses in salmonid fishes suggest that pheromone signals might be processed by a mechanism distinct from that of other odorants. Using in vivo single-unit and electroencephalographic recordings, we investigated response characteristics of olfactory neurons in lake whitefish, Coregonus clupeaformis, a species characterized by high electrophysiological and behavioral sensitivities to the reproductive pheromone candidates F-prostaglandins. We found a neuron population responsive to F-prostaglandins in the ventromedial brain tissue strip connecting the olfactory bulb to the telencephalon. Of the 64 neurons examined in this area, 33% showed excitatory and 11% inhibitory responses to F-prostaglandins, while 52% were non-responsive to all the stimuli tested. Both phasic and tonic F-prostaglandin neuron response patterns were observed during the 10-s stimulus period; some responses were delayed from the onset of stimulation, and some persisted for a long time following stimulus cessation. This neuron population did not induce synchronized oscillatory waves upon stimulation with F-prostaglandins, despite massive discharges. We demonstrate for the first time that the olfactory bulb-telencephalon area of the brain is a distinct neural structure through which putative reproductive pheromone signals are integrated. Amino acid and F-prostaglandin neuron population discharges have different temporal characteristics, suggesting different processing mechanisms exist for odorant and pheromone signals. The observed sustained neuron discharges may play a role in amplifying pheromone signals required for triggering stereotyped neuroendocrine and/or behavior changes.
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- F Laberge
- Department of Zoology, University of Manitoba, Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada R3T 2N2.
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Beltz BS, Kordas K, Lee MM, Long JB, Benton JL, Sandeman DC. Ecological, evolutionary, and functional correlates of sensilla number and glomerular density in the olfactory system of decapod crustaceans. J Comp Neurol 2003; 455:260-9. [PMID: 12454990 DOI: 10.1002/cne.10474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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One of the features common among olfactory systems for vertebrate and invertebrate species is the division of the primary processing area into distinct clumps of synaptic neuropil, called glomeruli. The olfactory glomeruli appear to serve as functional units of olfaction and are the location of the primary processing between chemosensory afferents and second-order neurons. Although glomeruli are found across all phyla, their numbers and size appear to be characteristic for each species, giving rise to the speculation that there is a relationship between glomerular number and function. It has been hypothesized, for example, that animals with more glomeruli may be able to resolve a wider range of odors. Crustacean species are distributed among freshwater, marine, and terrestrial habitats in arctic, temperate, and tropical climates. They also exhibit a variety of lifestyles and behaviors in which olfaction may play a dominant role. Feeding, for example, ranges from carnivorous, through subaquatic and terrestrial omnivorous scavenging, to filter feeding. Mating and territorial behaviors also are known to involve chemical signals. The current study examines glomerular numbers in the olfactory lobes of 17 crustacean species from six of the seven taxa now included in the reptantian decapods. Estimates of the glomerular numbers were obtained from the analysis of sectioned material treated immunocytochemically with an antibody against synapsin that labels proteins contained in neuronal terminals. The numbers of glomeruli found in the different species were then compared with the volume of the glomerular neuropil, numbers of olfactory sensilla, life styles, habitat, and phylogenetic affinities. The picture that emerges from these correlations is that the decapod crustaceans have exploited various strategies in the construction of their olfactory systems in which the problems of size, sensitivity, and selectivity have all interacted. We find a continuum across the groups ranging from those that favor a high convergence of receptor neurons onto a few glomeruli to those that share a small number of receptor neurons among many glomeruli. The potential functional consequences of these differences are discussed.
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- Barbara S Beltz
- Department of Biological Sciences, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts 02481, USA.
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Cremers D, Herz AVM. Traveling waves of excitation in neural field models: equivalence of rate descriptions and integrate-and-fire dynamics. Neural Comput 2002; 14:1651-67. [PMID: 12079550 DOI: 10.1162/08997660260028656] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Field models provide an elegant mathematical framework to analyze large-scale patterns of neural activity. On the microscopic level, these models are usually based on either a firing-rate picture or integrate-and-fire dynamics. This article shows that in spite of the large conceptual differences between the two types of dynamics, both generate closely related plane-wave solutions. Furthermore, for a large group of models, estimates about the network connectivity derived from the speed of these plane waves only marginally depend on the assumed class of microscopic dynamics. We derive quantitative results about this phenomenon and discuss consequences for the interpretation of experimental data.
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- Daniel Cremers
- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Mannheim, 68131 Mannheim, Germany.
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Lei H, Christensen TA, Hildebrand JG. Local inhibition modulates odor-evoked synchronization of glomerulus-specific output neurons. Nat Neurosci 2002; 5:557-65. [PMID: 12006983 DOI: 10.1038/nn0602-859] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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At the first stage of olfactory processing in the brain, synchronous firing across glomeruli may help to temporally bind multiple and spatially distributed input streams activated by a given odor. This hypothesis, however, has never been tested in an organism in which the odor-tuning properties of several spatially identifiable glomeruli are known. Using the sphinx moth, an insect that meets these specific criteria, we recorded odor-evoked responses simultaneously from pairs of projection neurons (PNs) innervating the same or different glomeruli in the macroglomerular complex (MGC), which is involved in processing pheromonal information. PNs that branched in the same glomerulus and were activated by the same pheromone component also showed the strongest coincident responses to each odor pulse. Glomerulus-specific PN pairs were also inhibited by the pheromone component that selectively activated PNs in the neighboring glomerulus, and about 70% of all intraglomerular pairs showed increased synchronization when stimulated with a mixture of the two odorants. Thus, when two adjacent glomeruli receive their inputs simultaneously, the temporal tuning of output from each glomerulus is enhanced by reciprocal and inhibitory interglomerular interactions.
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- Hong Lei
- Arizona Research Laboratories, Division of Neurobiology, University of Arizona, PO Box 210077, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0077, USA
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Early neuroscientists scoured the animal kingdom for the ideal preparation with which to study specific problems of interest. Today, non-mammalian nervous systems continue to provide ideal platforms for the study of fundamental problems in neuroscience. Indeed, the peculiarities of body plan and nervous systems that have evolved to carry out precise tasks in unique ecological niches enable investigators not only to pose specific scientific questions, but also to uncover principles that are general to all nervous systems.
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- Eve Marder
- Volen Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454-9110, USA.
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Fujie S, Aonuma H, Ito I, Gelperin A, Ito E. The nitric oxide/cyclic GMP pathway in the olfactory processing system of the terrestrial slug Limax marginatus. Zoolog Sci 2002; 19:15-26. [PMID: 12025400 DOI: 10.2108/zsj.19.15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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To examine the distribution of nitric oxide (NO)-generative cells and NO-responsive cells in the tentacles and procerebral lobes (olfactory processing center) of terrestrial slugs, we applied NADPH diaphorase (NADPH-d) histochemistry and NO-induced cyclic GMP (cGMP)-like immunohistochemistry. We found that NADPH-d reactive cells/fibers and cGMP-like immunoreactive cells/fibers were different, but they were localized adjacent to each other, in both the tentacles and the procerebral lobes. Then, we measured the concentration of NO that was generated around the procerebral lobes using an NO sensitive electrode, when the olfactory nerve was electrically stimulated as a replacement for an odorant stimulus. Stimulation of the olfactory nerve evoked an increase in NO concentration at nanomolar levels, suggesting that binding of nanomolar concentrations of NO to the prosthetic heme group activates soluble guanylyl cyclase. Taken together with previously reported physiological data, our results, therefore, showed that the NO/cGMP pathways are involved in slug olfactory processing.
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- Sayoko Fujie
- Laboratory of Animal Behavior and Intelligence, Division of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
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Beltz BS, Benton JL, Sullivan JM. Transient uptake of serotonin by newborn olfactory projection neurons. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2001; 98:12730-5. [PMID: 11675504 PMCID: PMC60122 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.231471298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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A life-long turnover of sensory and interneuronal populations has been documented in the olfactory pathways of both vertebrates and invertebrates, creating a situation where the axons of new afferent and interneuronal populations must insert into a highly specialized glomerular neuropil. A dense serotonergic innervation of the primary olfactory processing areas where these neurons synapse also is a consistent feature across species. Prior studies in lobsters have shown that serotonin promotes the branching of olfactory projection neurons. This paper presents evidence that serotonin also regulates the proliferation and survival of projection neurons in lobsters, and that the serotonergic effects are associated with a transient uptake of serotonin into newborn neurons.
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- B S Beltz
- Department of Biological Sciences, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 02481, USA.
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