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The Journal of Neuroscience, January 1, 1998, 18(1):266-283
Up and Down States in Striatal Medium Spiny Neurons
Simultaneously Recorded with Spontaneous Activity in Fast-Spiking
Interneurons Studied in Cortex-Striatum-Substantia Nigra Organotypic
Cultures
Dietmar
Plenz and
Stephen T.
Kitai
University of Tennessee, College of Medicine, Department of Anatomy
and Neurobiology, Memphis, Tennessee 38163
In vivo intracellular spontaneous activity in
striatal medium spiny (MS) projection neurons is characterized by
"up" and "down" states. How this type of activity relates to
the neuronal activity of striatal fast-spiking (FS) interneurons was
examined in the presence of nigral and cortical inputs using
cortex-striatum-substantia nigra organotypic cultures grown for
45 ± 4 d. The nigrostriatal projection was confirmed by
tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactivity. Corticostriatal (CS) projection
neurons, striatal MS neurons, and FS neurons were intracellularly
recorded and morphologically and electrophysiologically characterized.
Intracellular spontaneous activity in the cultures consisted of
intermittent depolarized periods of 0.5-1 sec duration. Spontaneous
depolarizations in MS neurons were restricted to a narrow membrane
potential range (up state) during which they occasionally fired single
spikes. These up states were completely blocked by the glutamate
antagonist CNQX. In FS interneurons, depolarized periods were
characterized by large membrane potential fluctuations that occupied a
wide range between rest and spike threshold. Also, FS interneurons spontaneously fired at much higher rates than did MS neurons. Simultaneous intracellular recordings established that during spontaneous depolarizations MS neurons and FS interneurons displayed correlated subthreshold neuronal activity in the low frequency range.
These results indicate that (1) the CS projection neurons, striatal MS
neurons, and FS interneurons grown in cortex-striatum-substantia nigra organotypic cultures show morphological and electrophysiological characteristics similar to those seen in vivo; (2)
striatal MS neurons but not FS interneurons show an up state; (3)
striatal MS neurons and FS interneurons receive common, presumably
cortical inputs in the low frequency range. Our results support the
view that the cortex provides a feedforward inhibition of MS neuron activity during the up state via FS interneurons.
Key words:
cortex; striatum; substantia nigra; organotypic culture; corticostriatal projection; nigrostriatal projection; medium spiny
projection neuron; fast-spiking interneuron; intracellular recording; cross-correlation
Copyright © 1998 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/98/181266-18$05.00/0
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