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Role and Origin of the GABAergic Innervation of Dorsal Raphe
Serotonergic Neurons
Damien
Gervasoni1,
Christelle
Peyron1,
Claire
Rampon1,
Bruno
Barbagli1,
Guy
Chouvet2,
Nadia
Urbain2,
Patrice
Fort1, and
Pierre-Hervé
Luppi1
1 Institut National de la Santé et de la
Recherche Médicale (INSERM) U480, 2 INSERM U512,
Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, 69373 Lyon cedex 08, France
Extracellular electrophysiological recordings in freely moving cats
have shown that serotonergic neurons from the dorsal raphe nucleus
(DRN) fire tonically during wakefulness, decrease their activity during
slow wave sleep (SWS), and are nearly quiescent during paradoxical
sleep (PS). The mechanisms at the origin of the modulation of activity
of these neurons are still unknown. Here, we show in the unanesthetized
rat that the iontophoretic application of the GABAA
antagonist bicuculline on dorsal raphe serotonergic neurons induces a
tonic discharge during SWS and PS and an increase of discharge rate
during quiet waking. These data strongly suggest that an increase of a
GABAergic inhibitory tone present during wakefulness is responsible for
the decrease of activity of the dorsal raphe serotonergic cells during
slow wave and paradoxical sleep. In addition, by combining retrograde tracing with cholera toxin B subunit and glutamic acid decarboxylase immunohistochemistry, we demonstrate that the GABAergic innervation of
the dorsal raphe nucleus arises from multiple distant sources and not
only from interneurons as classically accepted. Among these afferents,
GABAergic neurons located in the lateral preoptic area and the pontine
ventral periaqueductal gray including the DRN itself could be
responsible for the reduction of activity of the serotonergic neurons
of the dorsal raphe nucleus during slow wave and paradoxical sleep, respectively.
Key words:
dorsal raphe; GABA; serotonin; single-unit recordings; retrograde tracing; sleep-waking
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