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The Journal of Neuroscience, December 1, 1999, 19(23):10575-10583
An Inhibitory Interface Gates Impulse Traffic between the Input and Output Stations of the Amygdala
Sébastien Royer, Marzia Martina, and Denis Paré Laboratoire de Neurophysiologie, Département de Physiologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, Québec, (QUE), Canada, G1K 7P4
The central amygdaloid nucleus projects to brainstem and hypothalamic nuclei mediating fear responses and receives convergent sensory inputs from the basolateral amygdaloid complex. However, interposed between the basolateral complex and central nucleus is a string of interconnected GABAergic cell clusters, the intercalated cell masses. Here, we analyzed how intercalated neurons influence impulse traffic between the basolateral complex and central nucleus using whole-cell recordings, microstimulation, and local application of glutamate receptor antagonists in brain slices. Our results suggest that intercalated neurons receive glutamatergic inputs from the basolateral complex and generate feedforward inhibition in neurons of the central nucleus. As the position of the recording site was shifted medially, intercalated cells projected to gradually more medial sectors of the central nucleus and were maximally responsive to progressively more medial stimulation sites in the basolateral complex. Thus, there is a lateromedial correspondence between the position of intercalated cells, their projection site in the central nucleus, and the source of their excitatory afferents in the basolateral complex. In addition, basolateral stimulation sites eliciting maximal excitatory responses in intercalated neurons were flanked laterally by sites eliciting prevalently inhibitory responses via the activation of intercalated cells located more laterally. As a result, the feedforward inhibition generated by intercalated neurons and, indirectly, the amplitude of the responses of central neurons could be increased or decreased depending on which combination of amygdala nuclei are activated and in what sequence. Thus, the output of the central nucleus depends not only on the nature and intensity of sensory inputs but also on their timing and origin.
Key words: amygdala; intra-amygdaloid pathways; intercalated cell masses; central amygdaloid nucleus; feedforward inhibition; fear conditioning
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