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The Journal of Neuroscience, July 15, 2002, 22(14):6228-6238
Interneuronal Basis of the Generation of Related but Distinct
Motor Programs in Aplysia: Implications for Current
Neuronal Models of Vertebrate Intralimb Coordination
Jian
Jing and
Klaudiusz R.
Weiss
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Mount Sinai School of
Medicine, New York, New York 10029-6574
Coordination of two sets of movements, protraction-retraction
versus opening-closing, of the feeding apparatus (the radula) in
ingestive and egestive motor programs of Aplysia
resembles vertebrate intralimb coordination in that the relative timing of the two sets of movements differs in the two motor programs. In both
ingestion and egestion, radula protraction and retraction alternate,
whereas radula closure shifts its phase relative to protraction-retraction. In egestion, the radula closes in protraction; in ingestion, the radula closes in retraction. In both ingestive and
egestive motor programs elicited by the command-like neuron, cerebral-buccal interneuron-2 (CBI-2), the protraction and retraction movements are mediated by the same sets of controller interneurons. In
contrast, radula closure is mediated by two controller interneurons, B20 and B40, that are preferentially active in egestion and ingestion, respectively. In egestion, B20, active in protraction, drives closure
motorneuron B8 in protraction, whereas in ingestion, B40, also active
in protraction, uses a functionally novel mechanism, fast inhibition
and slow excitation, to drive B8 in retraction. Our findings are
summarized in a neural model that permits a conceptual comparison of
our model with two previous hypothetical models of intralimb
coordination in spinal circuits that were proposed by Grillner (1981,
1985) and Berkowitz and Stein (1994). Although our model supports the
existence of separate controllers for different movements as in the
Grillner (1981, 1985) model; in terms of basic mechanisms, our model is
similar to the Berkowitz and Stein (1994) model because the
closure movement is mediated by separate controllers in different
programs, and thus both models can be classified as recruitment models.
Key words:
Aplysia; feeding; ingestion; egestion; central
pattern generator; mollusc; motor program; motor pattern selection; interneuron; intralimb coordination
Copyright © 2002 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/02/22146228-11$05.00/0
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