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The Journal of Neuroscience, July 1, 1999, 19(13):5449-5463
Different Proctolin Neurons Elicit Distinct Motor Patterns from a
Multifunctional Neuronal Network
Dawn M.
Blitz1,
Andrew
E.
Christie1, 2,
Melissa J.
Coleman1,
Brian J.
Norris1,
Eve
Marder2, and
Michael P.
Nusbaum1
1 Department of Neuroscience, University of
Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6074, and 2 Volen Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis
University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454
Distinct motor patterns are selected from a multifunctional
neuronal network by activation of different modulatory projection neurons. Subsets of these projection neurons can contain the same neuromodulator(s), yet little is known about the relative influence of
such neurons on network activity. We have addressed this issue in the
stomatogastric nervous system of the crab Cancer
borealis. Within this system, there is a neuronal network in
the stomatogastric ganglion (STG) that produces many versions of the
pyloric and gastric mill rhythms. These different rhythms result from
activation of different projection neurons that innervate the STG from
neighboring ganglia and modulate STG network activity. Three pairs of
these projection neurons contain the neuropeptide proctolin. These
include the previously identified modulatory proctolin neuron and
modulatory commissural neuron 1 (MCN1) and the newly identified
modulatory commissural neuron 7 (MCN7). We document here that each of
these neurons contains a unique complement of cotransmitters and that each of these neurons elicits a distinct version of the pyloric motor
pattern. Moreover, only one of them (MCN1) also elicits a gastric mill
rhythm. The MCN7-elicited pyloric rhythm includes a pivotal switch by
one STG network neuron from playing a minor to a major role in motor
pattern generation. Therefore, modulatory neurons that share a peptide
transmitter can elicit distinct motor patterns from a common target network.
Key words:
stomatogastric nervous system; crustacea; projection
neurons; neuromodulation; Cancer borealis; central pattern
generators
Copyright © 1999 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/99/19135449-15$05.00/0
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