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The Journal of Neuroscience, February 15, 1999, 19(4):1294-1306
Sustained and Accelerating Activity at Two Discrete Sites Generate Epileptiform Discharges in Slices of Piriform Cortex
Rezan Demir1, Lewis B. Haberly1, 3, and Meyer B. Jackson1, 2 1 Center for Neuroscience, and Departments of 2 Physiology and 3 Anatomy, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison Wisconsin 53706
When near-threshold electrical stimulation is used to evoke epileptiform discharges in brain slices, a latent period of up to 150 msec elapses before the discharge begins. During this period most neurons are silent, and abnormal electrical activity is difficult to detect with microelectrodes. A fundamental question about epileptiform activity concerns how synchronous discharges arise abruptly in a relatively quiescent slice. This issue was addressed here by using voltage imaging techniques to study epileptiform discharges in rat piriform cortex slices. These experiments revealed two distinct forms of electrical activity during the latent period. (1) A steeply increasing depolarization, referred to here as onset activity, has been described previously and occurs at the site of discharge onset. (2) A sustained depolarization that precedes onset activity, referred to here as plateau activity, has not been described previously. Plateau and onset activity occurred in different subregions of the endopiriform nucleus (a region of high seizure susceptibility). When cobalt or kynurenic acid was applied focally to inhibit electrical activity at the site of plateau activity, discharges were blocked. However, application of these agents to other nearby sites (except the site of onset) failed to block discharges. Plateau activity represents a novel form of electrical activity that precedes and is necessary for epileptiform discharges. Discharges thus are generated in a sequential process by two spatially distinct neuronal circuits. The first circuit amplifies and sustains activity initiated by the stimulus, and the second generates the actual discharge in response to an excitatory drive from the first.
Key words: epilepsy; voltage imaging; piriform cortex; olfactory cortex; disinhibition; neural circuitry
Copyright © 1999 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/99/1941294-13$05.00/0
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