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The Journal of Neuroscience, February 15, 2003, 23(4):1298
Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Sensory Responses in Layer 2/3 of Rat
Barrel Cortex Measured In Vivo by Voltage-Sensitive Dye
Imaging Combined with Whole-Cell Voltage Recordings and Neuron
Reconstructions
Carl C. H.
Petersen1,
Amiram
Grinvald2, and
Bert
Sakmann1
1 Department of Cell Physiology, Max-Planck-Institute
for Medical Research, Heidelberg D-69120, Germany, and
2 Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute for the
Sciences, Rehovot 76100, Israel
The spatiotemporal dynamics of the sensory response in layer 2/3 of
primary somatosensory cortex evoked by a single brief whisker
deflection was investigated by simultaneous voltage-sensitive dye (VSD)
imaging and whole-cell (WC) voltage recordings in the anesthetized rat
combined with reconstructions of dendritic and axonal arbors of L2/3
pyramids. Single and dual WC recordings from pyramidal cells indicated
a strong correlation between the local VSD population response and the
simultaneously measured subthreshold postsynaptic potential changes in
both amplitude and time course. The earliest VSD response was detected
10-12 msec after whisker deflection centered above the barrel
isomorphic to the stimulated principal whisker. It was restricted
horizontally to the size of a single barrel-column coextensive with the
dendritic arbor of barrel-column-related pyramids in L2/3. The
horizontal spread of excitation remained confined to a single
barrel-column with weak whisker deflection. With intermediate
deflections, excitation spread into adjacent barrel-columns,
propagating twofold more rapidly along the rows of the barrel field
than across the arcs, consistent with the preferred axonal
arborizations in L2/3 of reconstructed pyramidal neurons. Finally,
larger whisker deflections evoked excitation spreading over the entire
barrel field within ~50 msec before subsiding over the next ~250
msec. Thus the subthreshold cortical map representing a whisker
deflection is dynamic on the millisecond time scale and strongly
depends on stimulus strength. The sequential spatiotemporal activation
of the excitatory neuronal network in L2/3 by a simple sensory stimulus
can thus be accounted for primarily by the columnar restriction
of L4 to L2/3 excitatory connections and the axonal field of
barrel-related pyramids.
Key words:
barrel cortex; layer 2/3; voltage-sensitive dye; imaging; in vivo; sensory response
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