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The Journal of Neuroscience, March 15, 1998, 18(6):2212-2225
Neuromodulatory Inputs Maintain Expression of a Lobster Motor
Pattern-Generating Network in a Modulation-Dependent State: Evidence
from Long-Term Decentralization In Vitro
Muriel
Thoby-Brisson and
John
Simmers
Laboratoire de Neurobiologie des Réseaux, Université de
Bordeaux I and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 33120 Arcachon, France
Neuromodulatory inputs play a critical role in governing the
expression of rhythmic motor output by the pyloric network in the
crustacean stomatogastric ganglion (STG). When these inputs are removed
by cutting the primarily afferent stomatogastric nerve (stn) to the
STG, pyloric neurons rapidly lose their ability to burst spontaneously,
and the network falls silent. By using extracellular motor nerve
recordings from long-term organotypic preparations of the
stomatogastric nervous system of the lobster Jasus
lalandii, we are investigating whether modulatory inputs exert
long-term regulatory influences on the pyloric network operation in
addition to relatively short-term neuromodulation. When decentralized
(stn cut), quiescent STGs are maintained in organ culture, pyloric rhythmicity gradually returns within 3-5 d and is similar to, albeit
slower than, the triphasic motor pattern expressed when the stn is
intact. This recovery of network activity still occurred after
photoinactivation of axotomized input terminals in the isolated STG
after migration of Lucifer yellow. The recovery does not depend on
action potential generation, because it also occurred in STGs maintained in TTX-containing saline after decentralization. Resumption of rhythmicity was also not activity-dependent, because recovery still
occurred in STGs that were chronically depolarized with elevated
K+ saline or were maintained continuously active
with the muscarinic agonist oxotremorine after decentralization. We
conclude that the prolonged absence of extraganglionic modulatory
inputs to the pyloric network allows expression of an inherent
rhythmogenic capability that is normally maintained in a strictly
conditional state when these extrinsic influences are present.
Key words:
pyloric motor network; neuromodulation; stomatogastric
nervous system; spiny lobster; organ culture; long-term
decentralization; functional recovery
Copyright © 1998 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/98/1862212-14$05.00/0
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