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Volume 16, Number 23, Issue of December 1, 1996 pp. 7742-7756
Copyright ©1996 Society for NeuroscienceCellular Mechanisms of the Augmenting Response: Short-Term Plasticity in a Thalamocortical Pathway
Received May 10, 1996; revised Aug. 9, 1996; accepted Sept. 12, 1996.
Manuel A. Castro-Alamancos and Barry W. Connors Department of Neuroscience, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912
Some thalamocortical pathways display an "augmenting response" when stimuli are delivered at frequencies between 7 and 14 Hz. Cortical responses to the first three stimuli of a series increase progressively in amplitude and are relatively stable thereafter. We have investigated the cellular mechanisms of the augmenting response using extracellular and intracellular recordings in vivo and in slices of the sensorimotor neocortex of the rat.
Single stimuli to the ventrolateral (VL) nucleus of the thalamus generate EPSPs followed by feedforward IPSPs that hyperpolarize cells in layer V. A long-latency depolarization interrupts the IPSP with a peak at ~200 msec. A second VL stimulus delivered during the hyperpolarization and before the peak of the long-latency depolarization yields an augmenting response. The shortest latency for augmenting responses occurs in cells of layer V, and they appear in dendrites and somata recorded in upper layers ~5 msec later. Recordings in vitro show that some layer V cells have hyperpolarization-activated and deinactivated conductances that may serve to increase their excitability after IPSPs. Also in vitro, cells from layer V, but not from layer III, generated augmenting responses at the same stimulation frequencies that were effective in vivo. Control experiments indicated that neither paired-pulse depression of IPSPs nor presynaptically mediated facilitation can account for the augmenting response. Active dendritic conductances contribute to the spread of augmenting responses into upper layers by way of back-propagating fast spikes, which attenuate with repetition, and long-lasting spikes, which enhance in parallel with the augmenting response. In conclusion, we propose that the initiation of augmenting responses depends on an interaction between inhibition, intrinsic membrane properties, and synaptic interconnections of layer V pyramidal neurons.
Key words: thalamus; neocortex; dendrite; short-term plasticity; voltage-dependent conductances; synchronization; layer V pyramidal cell
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