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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
41
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-10-9
pubmed:abstractText
The sensory-motor transformation of the large dynamic spectrum of head-motion-related signals occurs in separate vestibulo-ocular pathways. Synaptic responses of tonic and phasic second-order vestibular neurons were recorded in isolated frog brains after stimulation of individual labyrinthine nerve branches with trains of single electrical pulses. The timing of the single pulses was adapted from spike discharge patterns of frog semicircular canal nerve afferents during sinusoidal head rotation. Because each electrical pulse evoked a single spike in afferent fibers, the resulting sequences with sinusoidally modulated intervals and peak frequencies up to 100 Hz allowed studying the processing of presynaptic afferent inputs with in vivo characteristics in second-order vestibular neurons recorded in vitro in an isolated whole brain. Variation of pulse-train parameters showed that the postsynaptic compound response dynamics differ in the two types of frog vestibular neurons. In tonic neurons, subthreshold compound responses and evoked discharge patterns exhibited relatively linear dynamics and were generally aligned with pulse frequency modulation. In contrast, compound responses of phasic neurons were asymmetric with large leads of subthreshold response peaks and evoked spike discharge relative to stimulus waveform. These nonlinearities were caused by the particular intrinsic properties of phasic vestibular neurons and were facilitated by GABAergic and glycinergic inhibitory inputs from tonic type vestibular interneurons and by cerebellar circuits. Coadapted intrinsic filter and emerging network properties thus form dynamically different neuronal elements that provide the appropriate cellular basis for a parallel processing of linear, tonic, and nonlinear phasic vestibulo-ocular response components in central vestibular neurons.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
1529-2401
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
8
pubmed:volume
28
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
10349-62
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:18842894-Afferent Pathways, pubmed-meshheading:18842894-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:18842894-Ear, Inner, pubmed-meshheading:18842894-Electric Stimulation, pubmed-meshheading:18842894-Glycine, pubmed-meshheading:18842894-Head, pubmed-meshheading:18842894-Interneurons, pubmed-meshheading:18842894-Models, Neurological, pubmed-meshheading:18842894-Nerve Fibers, pubmed-meshheading:18842894-Neural Inhibition, pubmed-meshheading:18842894-Neural Pathways, pubmed-meshheading:18842894-Neurons, Afferent, pubmed-meshheading:18842894-Presynaptic Terminals, pubmed-meshheading:18842894-Rana temporaria, pubmed-meshheading:18842894-Rotation, pubmed-meshheading:18842894-Semicircular Canals, pubmed-meshheading:18842894-Signal Transduction, pubmed-meshheading:18842894-Synapses, pubmed-meshheading:18842894-Vestibular Nerve, pubmed-meshheading:18842894-gamma-Aminobutyric Acid
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Differential dynamic processing of afferent signals in frog tonic and phasic second-order vestibular neurons.
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratoire de Neurobiologie des Réseaux Sensorimoteurs, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR 7060, Université Paris Descartes, 75270 Paris Cedex 06, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, In Vitro, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't