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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
24
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-6-16
pubmed:abstractText
Olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) expressing the same odorant receptor converge in specific glomeruli where they transmit olfactory information to mitral cells. Surprisingly, synaptic mechanisms underlying mitral cell activation are still controversial. Using patch-clamp recordings in mouse olfactory bulb slices, we demonstrate that stimulation of OSNs produces a biphasic postsynaptic excitatory response in mitral cells. The response was initiated by a fast and graded monosynaptic input from OSNs and followed by a slower component of feedforward excitation, involving dendro-dendritic interactions between external tufted, tufted and other mitral cells. The mitral cell response occasionally lacked the fast OSN input when few afferent fibers were stimulated. We also show that OSN stimulation triggers a strong and slow feedforward inhibition that shapes the feedforward excitation but leaves unaffected the monosynaptic component. These results confirm the existence of direct OSN to mitral cells synapses but also emphasize the prominence of intraglomerular feedforward pathways in the mitral cell response.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
1529-2401
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
31
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
8722-9
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:21677156-2-Amino-5-phosphonovalerate, pubmed-meshheading:21677156-Action Potentials, pubmed-meshheading:21677156-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:21677156-Animals, Newborn, pubmed-meshheading:21677156-Biophysics, pubmed-meshheading:21677156-Chromones, pubmed-meshheading:21677156-Electric Stimulation, pubmed-meshheading:21677156-Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists, pubmed-meshheading:21677156-Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials, pubmed-meshheading:21677156-Female, pubmed-meshheading:21677156-GABA Antagonists, pubmed-meshheading:21677156-Luminescent Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:21677156-Male, pubmed-meshheading:21677156-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:21677156-Mice, Transgenic, pubmed-meshheading:21677156-Nerve Net, pubmed-meshheading:21677156-Neurons, pubmed-meshheading:21677156-Olfactory Bulb, pubmed-meshheading:21677156-Patch-Clamp Techniques, pubmed-meshheading:21677156-Pyridazines, pubmed-meshheading:21677156-Synapses
pubmed:year
2011
pubmed:articleTitle
Monosynaptic and polysynaptic feed-forward inputs to mitral cells from olfactory sensory neurons.
pubmed:affiliation
Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité 603, Paris, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, In Vitro, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't