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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
28
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-7-16
pubmed:abstractText
Coordinated patterns of electrical activity are important for the early development of sensory systems. The spatiotemporal dynamics of these early activity patterns and the role of the peripheral sensory input for their generation are essentially unknown. We performed extracellular multielectrode recordings in the somatosensory cortex of postnatal day 0 to 7 rats in vivo and observed three distinct patterns of synchronized oscillatory activity. (1) Spontaneous and periphery-driven spindle bursts of 1-2 s in duration and approximately 10 Hz in frequency occurred approximately every 10 s. (2) Spontaneous and sensory-driven gamma oscillations of 150-300 ms duration and 30-40 Hz in frequency occurred every 10-30 s. (3) Long oscillations appeared only every approximately 20 min and revealed the largest amplitude (250-750 microV) and longest duration (>40 s). These three distinct patterns of early oscillatory activity differently synchronized the neonatal cortical network. Whereas spindle bursts and gamma oscillations did not propagate and synchronized a local neuronal network of 200-400 microm in diameter, long oscillations propagated with 25-30 microm/s and synchronized 600-800 microm large ensembles. All three activity patterns were triggered by sensory activation. Single electrical stimulation of the whisker pad or tactile whisker activation elicited neocortical spindle bursts and gamma activity. Long oscillations could be only evoked by repetitive sensory stimulation. The neonatal oscillatory patterns in vivo depended on NMDA receptor-mediated synaptic transmission and gap junctional coupling. Whereas spindle bursts and gamma oscillations may represent an early functional columnar-like pattern, long oscillations may serve as a propagating activation signal consolidating these immature neuronal networks.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
1529-2401
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
29
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
9011-25
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-12-7
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:19605639-Action Potentials, pubmed-meshheading:19605639-Age Factors, pubmed-meshheading:19605639-Amino Acids, pubmed-meshheading:19605639-Anesthetics, Local, pubmed-meshheading:19605639-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:19605639-Animals, Newborn, pubmed-meshheading:19605639-Biological Clocks, pubmed-meshheading:19605639-Brain Mapping, pubmed-meshheading:19605639-Electric Stimulation, pubmed-meshheading:19605639-Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory, pubmed-meshheading:19605639-Functional Laterality, pubmed-meshheading:19605639-Lidocaine, pubmed-meshheading:19605639-Nerve Net, pubmed-meshheading:19605639-Neurons, pubmed-meshheading:19605639-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:19605639-Somatosensory Cortex, pubmed-meshheading:19605639-Statistics, Nonparametric, pubmed-meshheading:19605639-Synaptic Transmission, pubmed-meshheading:19605639-Vibrissae
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Three patterns of oscillatory activity differentially synchronize developing neocortical networks in vivo.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology, University of Mainz, D-55128 Mainz, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't