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Volume 16, Number 15, Issue of August 1, 1996 pp. 4733-4741
Copyright ©1996 Society for NeuroscienceChemically Mediated Cross-Excitation in Rat Dorsal Root Ganglia
Received Jan. 23, 1996; revised May 3, 1996; accepted May 13, 1996.
Ron Amir and Marshall Devor Department of Cell and Animal Biology, Life Sciences Institute, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
Primary afferent neurons in mammalian dorsal root ganglia (DRGs) are anatomically isolated from one another and are not synaptically interconnected. As such, they are classically thought to function as independent sensory communication elements. However, it has recently been shown that most DRG neurons are transiently depolarized when axons of neighboring neurons of the same ganglion are stimulated repetitively. Here we further characterize this functional coupling. In electrophysiological recordings made from excised rat DRGs, we found that DRG ``cross-depolarization'' is excitatory in that it is accompanied by an increase in the probability of spiking in response to otherwise subthreshold test pulses delivered intracellularly. Cross-depolarization contributes to this mutual cross-excitation. However, at least as important a contribution comes from a net increase in the neurons' input resistance (Rin) triggered by the stimulation of neighboring neurons. This change in Rin occurs even when cross-depolarization is absent or is balanced out. The amplitude of cross-depolarization was found to be voltage-dependent, with a reversal potential at approximately
23 mV. Reversibility and the change in Rin both indicate that activity of neighboring neurons causes a membrane conductance change that is chemically mediated. Thus, far from being isolated, most DRG neurons participate in ongoing mutual interactions in which neuronal excitability is continuously modulated by afferent spike activity. This intraganglionic dialog appears to be mediated, at least in part, by an activity-dependent diffusable substance(s) released from neuronal somata and/or adjacent axons, and detected by neighboring cell somata and/or axons.
Key words: cross-excitation; cross talk; dorsal root ganglion; neuropathy; nonsynaptic neurotransmission; pain
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